Cottonwood Creek Charter

Cottonwood Creek Charter is a K-5 school of compact scale in Cottonwood, California, overseen by Cottonwood Creek Charter District, educateing 294 students in grades K through 8. That puts it 37% leaner than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Cottonwood Creek Charter District is the operating authority for Cottonwood Creek Charter, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

Looking at the student body, Cottonwood Creek Charter records that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 7% multiracial, 6% Hispanic.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 26.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Cottonwood Creek Charter higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 27% of students at Cottonwood Creek Charter qualify 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 meaningfully below typical.

In the broader community, census data for Shasta County shows the typical household earns roughly $72,636 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Cottonwood Creek Charter is one of 95 public schools in Shasta County (combined enrollment of about 26,639 students).

The closest other public school is West Cottonwood Junior High, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a low-density setting. Cottonwood Creek Charter operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

On this page, members of the Cottonwood Creek Charter community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.