In the annual report to the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, the folks from the Sonoma County Office of Education recently gave an overview of demographics and stats from area schools.
A quick look:
40 school districts
176 school sites
70,688 students
92 percent of county’s school age population attend public campuses
15,800 – 22 percent – students are English learners
52 percent of Sonoma County’s Latino students are English learners
More than 30,500 students – 43 percent of all county students – are economically disadvantaged and receive subsidized breakfast, lunch
Manuel Delgado
The story you did on our son, Michael Delgado was great. Mr. Swindle is still teaching and now there is this teacher up in Cloverdale that is in trouble for touching students, and is still getting paid for not teaching. I want to know why is it that School Districts can get away with just sweeping these problems under the rug like Santa Rosa City School District did with our son being hit by Mr. Swindle?
October 19th, 2012 8:20 am
Jennifer
It would be interesting to break down the statistics listed above into two groups: one for Kindergarten to 6th and another from 7th to 12th. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were more “economically disadvantaged” students in the younger grades. It seems like a lot of younger families are really struggling.
October 20th, 2012 9:33 pm