Bonny View Elementary

Set in Redding, California, Bonny View Elementary is an intimate elementary-level community, part of Redding Elementary. It instructs 292 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Bonny View Elementary sits 37% below that benchmark.

Bonny View Elementary is one of 9 schools operated by Redding Elementary, a district that instructs 2,958 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Bonny View Elementary shows that White students make up the majority at 63%. Beyond that, the school logs 20% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 3% Native American, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 78% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 70% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Shasta County (around 58%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Bonny View Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.1%, the actual is 36.8%, a residual of -1.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Shasta County put median household income runs about $72,636, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Bonny View Elementary is one of 95 public schools in Shasta County (combined enrollment of about 26,639 students).

The closest other public school is Shasta County Juvenile Court, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Bonny View Elementary comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Bonny View Elementary's enrollment has increased 17% since 2018, when it stood at 249 (now 292). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 73% to 63%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 19.5:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.