Columbia Elementary

Columbia Elementary operates as an average-sized elementary campus in Redding, California, overseen by Columbia Elementary. Current enrollment sits at 430 students spanning grades K through 4.

Across the 3 schools in Columbia Elementary (759 students total), Columbia Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Columbia Elementary logs that 69% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school shows 16% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 4% Asian, 3% Native American. By comparison, Shasta County as a whole is about 78% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Columbia Elementary has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 40% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Shasta County's rate of about 58%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Columbia Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.7%, the actual is 47.3%, a residual of -8.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Shasta County indicate median household income runs about $72,636, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Shasta County runs 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,639 students), of which Columbia Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Redding School of the Arts, roughly 1.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Columbia Elementary comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 40.9%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 435 students in 2018 compared to 430 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 78% to 69% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.8:1 in 2018 to 18.7:1 today.

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