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Which teacher or staff member at Wright Charter deserves more recognition?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
456
Elementary
DISTRICT 403 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WRIGHT ELEMENTARY·NCES 064320007016
Wright Charter
4389 Price Ave., Santa Rosa, CA 95407 · (707) 542-0556 · Sonoma County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL456 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 11% of California public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- FThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
20.8:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.1:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
78%
355 students
DISTRICT 79% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 62 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 43 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 50 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 54 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 42 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 55 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 52 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 48 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 50 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (62) is 24% larger than its 8th grade class (50).
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
34.1%
CA avg 49.1% . +2.1pp since 2014
Math
15.5%
CA avg 37.7% . -5.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 16 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 5 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 9.4% | 24.8% | 27.4% | 38.5% |
| Math | 2.6% | 12.9% | 27.8% | 56.6% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 34.1% | 15.5% |
| 2023-24 | 34.2% | 17.8% |
| 2022-23 | 37.5% | 18.3% |
| 2021-22 | 46.0% | 22.1% |
| 2018-19 | 51.6% | 27.3% |
| 2017-18 | 45.8% | 22.8% |
| 2016-17 | 40.2% | 20.7% |
| 2015-16 | 37.0% | 18.0% |
| 2014-15 | 32.0% | 21.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
25.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.9%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Wright Charter
Wright Charter's state test result (25.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wright Charter this school | 456 | 77.9% | 25.4% |
| Anderson (Linford L.) Elementary Dixon | 442 | 77.4% | 32.5% |
| Catherine Everett Elementary Modesto | 428 | 80.6% | 26.2% |
| Westmont Elementary Westminster | 441 | 81.2% | 36.0% |
| Tulsa Street Elementary Granada Hills | 406 | 76.6% | 42.6% |
| Louis J. Villalovoz Elementary Tracy | 411 | 79.6% | 30.4% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Wright Charter ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Sonoma County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.4% | #4,035 of 5,151 | #61 of 79 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 15.5% | #4,697 of 5,172 ▼ 281 | #72 of 79 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.1% | #3,540 of 5,172 ▼ 217 | #55 of 79 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -9.3pp | #162 of 5,116 | #6 of 79 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 456 | #2,958 of 5,915 | #21 of 105 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.8:1 | #1,402 of 5,352 | #27 of 76 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.0% | #2,425 of 5,354 | #37 of 76 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 77.9% | #2,379 of 5,625 | #18 of 89 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.2% | #2,918 of 3,837 | #35 of 50 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
456
-41 (-8%) vs 2017
-8% since 1990-91, when it was 498
Student : Teacher
20.8:1
was 24.3:1
% White
16%
was 26%
% Hispanic
65%
was 63%
% Black
3%
was 4%
% Asian
8%
was 6%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 456 | 21.9 | 20.8:1 | 78% (355) |
| 2023-24 | 461 | 21.6 | 21.3:1 | 79% (365) |
| 2022-23 | 457 | 20.9 | 21.8:1 | 68% (312) |
| 2017-18 | 497 | 20.4 | 24.3:1 | 73% (363) |
| 2015-16 | 517 | 21 | 24.6:1 | 72% (371) |
| 2010-11 | 462 | N/A | N/A | 78% (362) |
| 2000-01 | 380 | 19 | 20.0:1 | 53% (201) |
| 1990-91 | 498 | 22 | 22.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wright Charter.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (497 to 456); teachers up 7% (20.4 to 21.9).
About Wright Charter
Wright Charter is a mid-sized elementary school serving families in Santa Rosa, California. The school serves kindergarten through 8. Enrollment is 456 students.
The district, Wright Elementary, operates 3 schools serving 1,209 students.
Hispanic students are 65% of those enrolled at Wright Charter. The remaining shares are 16% White, 8% Asian, 5% multiracial, and 3% Black. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Sonoma County's population at about 30%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 54%.
Wright Charter has 21.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 20.8:1. Elementary schools in California have an average ratio of 22.3:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 78%. Public schools in Sonoma County average 51%.
Wright Charter holds a D allk12 Grade, placing it above 11% of California public elementary schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 33.9% for Wright Charter. The school posts 25.4%, 8.5 points below the prediction.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Sonoma County show that the median household earns about $104,674 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 39%, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. Across Sonoma County, 184 public schools serve about 63,389 students.
Cesar Chavez Language Academy is about 1.5 miles from Wright Charter, the shortest distance to any other public school. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 33.0%, higher than Wright Charter's 25.4%.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large). Federal records list Wright Charter as a charter school.
Enrollment was 456 in 2024-25. In 2017-18, it was 497. The share of White students dropped 10 points, from 26% to 16%. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 24.3:1 to 20.8:1.
This page is set up for the Wright Charter community to discuss special education services, counseling, and support programs. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Sonoma County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
485,040
Census ACS
Median income
$104,674
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
184
63,389 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Wright Elementary
- Robert L. Stevens ElementaryElementary · 421 students
- J. X. Wilson ElementaryElementary · 332 students
Other schools in Santa Rosa
- Maria Carrillo HighHigh · 1,584 students
- Santa Rosa HighHigh · 1,553 students
- Piner HighHigh · 1,434 students
- Roseland CharterCombined · 1,254 students
- Montgomery HighHigh · 1,253 students
- Elsie Allen HighHigh · 1,029 students
Nearby schools
- Cesar Chavez Language Academy1.5 mi · 773
- J. X. Wilson Elementary1.6 mi · 332
- Robert L. Stevens Elementary1.7 mi · 421
- Roseland Creek Elementary2.1 mi · 534
- Roseland Charter2.1 mi · 1,254
- Oak Grove Elementary/Willowside Middle2.2 mi · 708
Frequently asked questions
About Wright CharterWhat is the total enrollment at Wright Charter?
Wright Charter enrolls approximately 456 students in grades KG-08.
Is Wright Charter an elementary, middle, or high school?
Wright Charter is an elementary school covering grades KG-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Wright Charter?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Wright Charter is approximately 20.8:1 (22 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Wright Charter?
At Wright Charter, the student body is approximately 16% White, 65% Hispanic, 3% Black, 8% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Wright Charter public or private?
Wright Charter is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by Wright Elementary.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.