Evergreen Elementary

Located at 19415 Hooker Creek Rd., in Cottonwood, California, Evergreen Elementary is a mid-sized primary school that serves 541 students (grades K through 4), part of Evergreen Union.

Evergreen Union comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 1,231 students; Evergreen Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Evergreen Elementary shows that the largest single group is White, at 75% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 18% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Native American. By comparison, Tehama County as a whole is about 67% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Tehama County (around 72%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Evergreen Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.7%, the actual is 47.4%, a residual of +3.7 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Tehama County indicate median household income runs about $63,784, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Tehama County runs 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,948 students), of which Evergreen Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Evergreen Community Day School (K-5), roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Evergreen Elementary comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 38.5%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 5%: 572 students in 2018 compared to 541 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 23.8:1 in 2018 to 22.5:1 in 2025.

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