Bella Vista Elementary

Bella Vista Elementary is a K-5 school of small scale in Bella Vista, California, one of the schools within Bella Vista Elementary, caters to 343 students in grades K through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Bella Vista Elementary sits 26% below that benchmark.

Bella Vista Elementary is a school of Bella Vista Elementary, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On demographics, Bella Vista Elementary shows that White students make up the majority at 69%. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 2% Native American. By comparison, Shasta County as a whole is about 78% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Bella Vista Elementary has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.0:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 64% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Bella Vista Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.6%, the actual is 41.8%, a residual of +0.2 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Shasta County put the typical household earns roughly $72,636 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Shasta County runs 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,639 students), of which Bella Vista Elementary is one.

North Cow Creek Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Bella Vista Elementary. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bella Vista Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 48.7%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bella Vista Elementary has ticked down 3%, going from 352 students in 2018 to 343 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 78% to 69% across the same window.

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