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Sebastopol Independent Charter

· Sonoma County · Sebastopol Union Elementary · Public

Public Sonoma County 🏛 Sebastopol Union Elementary → CDS 4970938…
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📘Top 10 ELA proficiency in Sonoma 🧮Top 8 Math proficiency in Sonoma

📋 At a glance

Programs & features
  • Program details not reported to CRDC
Academic signals
  • Academic signals not yet ingested for this school

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How Sebastopol Independent Charter compares for families

What families should know about Sebastopol Independent Charter.

  • Locally📘 Top 10 in Sonoma County on ELA proficiency — plus 1 more top-rank.
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Sunridge Charter, Twin Hills Charter Middle, Wright Charter and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

Chronic absenteeism — 2024-25

Share of students missing 10% or more of expected attendance — the leading indicator that often precedes the demand decline shown above. Families disengaging tend to raise absenteeism first, then formally leave. Basis: total enrollment.

Chronic absent
7.2%
21 of 291 students

Absenteeism is up 3.1 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

Sonoma County median
17.5% · school is better than 95% of 58 HS
Statewide median
20.9%
Chronic absenteeism by year (raw %)

Source: California Department of Education, Chronic Absenteeism 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 eligible students. CDE didn't publish a usable 2019-20 file (COVID).

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment
292 (2018)282 (2026)
-3.4%

If this trend holds (-0.4%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~281 -1 $0
3 yr (2029) ~278 -4 $0
5 yr (2031) ~276 -6 $0

Straight-line extrapolation of the recent annual rate — a what-if, not a forecast of intent. Default = California's LCFF base grant for grades 9–12 ($12,423/ADA). Edit the figure to match your school.

Sebastopol Independent Charter — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • At its recent rate (-0.4%/yr), enrollment projects to ~278 by 2029 — about 4 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

282 students (2026)
~278 projected (2029)
at -0.4%/yr

That's about 4 fewer students. At per-student funding of $ per student, that's roughly $0 in annual state funding at risk.

Default = California's LCFF base grant for grades 9–12 ($12,423 per ADA) — adjust to your district's actual per-pupil figure. Projection extrapolates the recent annual rate — not a forecast of intent.

Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools

School Type Size UC Reach Enroll. trend
Sebastopol Independent Charter Public 282
Peer-group median 31.6% -4%
Sunridge Charter Public 263
Twin Hills Charter Middle Public 252
Wright Charter Public 342
Olivet Elementary Charter Public 328
Ridgway High (continuation) Public 252 -4%
Morrice Schaefer Charter Public 318
Technology High School Public 344 31.6% +10%
Santa Rosa Charter School For The Arts Public 375
Piner-Olivet Charter Public 204
Pathways Charter Public 379 -32%

UC Reach = top-6 UC admits ÷ senior class (can exceed 100% when students are admitted to multiple campuses). Enrollment trend = first-to-latest grade-12 change on file. Similar schools matched on proximity, size, type. Methodology →

Enrollment stability & demand — 2024-25

Two complementary signals: retention (do students stay once enrolled?) and demand (are families choosing the school?). Read against the Sonoma County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

Stability rate
95.6%
280 of 293 students

13 of 293 students who enrolled at Sebastopol Independent Charter this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (4.4% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Sonoma County median
92.0% · school is in the 83rd percentile of 59 HS
Statewide median
88.7% · in the 89th percentile of 2,648 HS

Stability by student group

White (219) 95.4%
Socio. disadvantaged (113) 93.8%
Students w/ disabilities (53) 92.5%
Hispanic / Latino (37) 94.6%
Two or more races (24) 100.0%

Nearest peer high schools

Sunridge Charter 96.2% Twin Hills Charter Middle 96.2% Wright Charter 89.2% Olivet Elementary Charter 90.4% Ridgway High (continuation) 44.1%

Source: California Department of Education, Stability Rate 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 cumulative enrollees so by-design-high-churn continuation schools don't dominate the bottom of the distribution. Cumulative enrollment counts every student on the rolls during the year, so it can exceed peak-day enrollment.

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