Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified School District
Encyclopedia
The Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified School District is a school district
based in Sonoma County, California
.
The District serves approximately 6,700 students in the cities of Cotati
and Rohnert Park
and neighboring areas of Sonoma County. The district operates eight elementary school
s, two middle school
s, a community day school
, one comprehensive high school
, a magnet school
, one necessary small high school, and one Waldorf high school.
The district's offices are located at 5860 Labath Avenue, Rohnert Park, CA
94928.
The district is supported by the Education Foundation of Cotati & Rohnert Park, a non-profit organization
founded in 1983 to provide private grants to the school district. Since its founding, the organization has made grants totaling over $850,000 to the district's schools.
The district is governed by a board consisting of Leffler Brown (term expires 2014), Andrew Longmire (2014), Marc Orloff (2014), Ed Gilardi (2012), and Karyn Pulley (2012). The superintendent
is Dr. Robert Haley.
High schools - Four in Rohnert Park
Middle schools - Two in Rohnert Park:
Primary schools - Five in Rohnert Park:
One in Cotati:
School district
School districts are a form of special-purpose district which serves to operate the local public primary and secondary schools.-United States:...
based in Sonoma County, California
Sonoma County, California
Sonoma County, located on the northern coast of the U.S. state of California, is the largest and northernmost of the nine San Francisco Bay Area counties. Its population at the 2010 census was 483,878. Its largest city and county seat is Santa Rosa....
.
The District serves approximately 6,700 students in the cities of Cotati
Cotati, California
Cotati is an incorporated city in Sonoma County, California, U.S.A., located about north of San Francisco in the 101 corridor between Rohnert Park and Petaluma....
and Rohnert Park
Rohnert Park, California
Rohnert Park is a city in Sonoma County, California, United States, located approximately north of San Francisco. The population at the 2010 United States Census was 40,971. It is an early planned city, modeled directly after Levittown, New York and Levittown, Pennsylvania. Rohnert Park is the...
and neighboring areas of Sonoma County. The district operates eight elementary school
Elementary school
An elementary school or primary school is an institution where children receive the first stage of compulsory education known as elementary or primary education. Elementary school is the preferred term in some countries, particularly those in North America, where the terms grade school and grammar...
s, two middle school
Middle school
Middle School and Junior High School are levels of schooling between elementary and high schools. Most school systems use one term or the other, not both. The terms are not interchangeable...
s, a community day school
Day school
A day school—as opposed to a boarding school—is an institution where children are given educational instruction during the day and after which children/teens return to their homes...
, one comprehensive high school
Comprehensive high school
Comprehensive high schools are the most common form of public high schools in the United States and are meant to serve the needs of all students, as compared to the common practice in other nations in which examinations are used to sort students into different high schools for different populations...
, a magnet school
Magnet school
In education in the United States, magnet schools are public schools with specialized courses or curricula. "Magnet" refers to how the schools draw students from across the normal boundaries defined by authorities as school zones that feed into certain schools.There are magnet schools at the...
, one necessary small high school, and one Waldorf high school.
The district's offices are located at 5860 Labath Avenue, Rohnert Park, CA
Rohnert Park, California
Rohnert Park is a city in Sonoma County, California, United States, located approximately north of San Francisco. The population at the 2010 United States Census was 40,971. It is an early planned city, modeled directly after Levittown, New York and Levittown, Pennsylvania. Rohnert Park is the...
94928.
The district is supported by the Education Foundation of Cotati & Rohnert Park, a non-profit organization
Non-profit organization
Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...
founded in 1983 to provide private grants to the school district. Since its founding, the organization has made grants totaling over $850,000 to the district's schools.
The district is governed by a board consisting of Leffler Brown (term expires 2014), Andrew Longmire (2014), Marc Orloff (2014), Ed Gilardi (2012), and Karyn Pulley (2012). The superintendent
Superintendent
Superintendent may refer to:*Superintendent , Superintendent of Police, SP, Senior Superintendent of Police or SSP - a police rank*Superintendent or Superintendent of Prison, Superintendent of Jail, Senior Superintendent of Jail - a rank in prisons - head of a district, central or special prison...
is Dr. Robert Haley.
Schools
- Credo High SchoolCredo High School (Sonoma County, CA)Credo High School is a tuition-free, college prep public charter school in Rohnert Park, California, inspired by Waldorf education and serving students in ninth through twelfth grades...
- Phoenix High School
- Rancho Cotate High SchoolRancho Cotate High SchoolRancho Cotate High School "The Ranch" for short, is a four-year comprehensive high school located in Rohnert Park, California. It is located at 5450 Snyder Lane, adjacent to the campus of Sonoma State University....
(the regular high school in CRPUSD) - Technology High School
Middle schools - Two in Rohnert Park:
- Lawrence E. Jones Middle School - In Spring 2010, the school district closed Mountain Shadows Middle School due to district-wide declining enrollment and the California budget crisis and merged it with Creekside Middle School, which opened in 1995. The combined school, on the former Creekside campus, opened in August 2010 and was named Lawrence E. Jones after a longtime School Resource Officer.
- Community Day School
Primary schools - Five in Rohnert Park:
- Evergreen Elementary (California)
- Marguerite Hahn Elementary
- Monte Vista Elementary
- John Reed Elementary
- Waldo Rohnert Elementary
One in Cotati:
- Thomas Page Elementary School - Grades K-6. Enrollment is 400 students. The school is located in 1075 Madrone Avenue in Cotati. Its school mascotMascotThe term mascot – defined as a term for any person, animal, or object thought to bring luck – colloquially includes anything used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, professional sports team, society, military unit, or brand name...
is the tiger, and its annual fundraising event is a "Tiger Prowl" Walk-A-Thon. Its campus, built in 1969, occupies a 10.5 acres (4.2 ha) rural parcel on Madrone Avenue, just south of State Route 116California State Route 116State Route 116 is a state highway in the U.S. state of California in Sonoma County. The route runs from State Route 1 on the Pacific coast near Jenner to State Route 121 south of Sonoma.-Route description:...
at 38.33°N 122.726°W. The school is named after Dr. Thomas Stokes Page, an immigrant from ValparaísoValparaísoValparaíso is a city and commune of Chile, center of its third largest conurbation and one of the country's most important seaports and an increasing cultural center in the Southwest Pacific hemisphere. The city is the capital of the Valparaíso Province and the Valparaíso Region...
, ChileChileChile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
, who settled in the area in in the 1840s.