Boulder Creek Elementary

Set in Redding, California, Boulder Creek Elementary is a high-enrollment primary school, overseen by Enterprise Elementary. It teaches 839 students across grades K through 8. That puts it 80% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Across the 9 schools in Enterprise Elementary (3,668 students total), Boulder Creek Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Boulder Creek Elementary shows that 62% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder is composed of 15% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 7% Asian, 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 school resources, The school lists 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.3:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Boulder Creek Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.7%; this one delivers 52.5%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Shasta County indicate the typical household earns roughly $72,636 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Boulder Creek Elementary is one of 95 public schools in Shasta County (combined enrollment of about 26,639 students).

Nearest neighbor: Mountain View Middle, around 1.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Boulder Creek Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 39.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 13%: 969 students in 2018 compared to 839 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 71% to 62%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 25.8:1 in 2018 to 23.3:1 today.

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