Gateway Educational Options

Gateway Educational Options operates as an one-room-style multi-level school in Shasta Lake, California, one of the schools within Gateway Unified. Current enrollment sits at 72 students spanning grades K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 88% smaller than the state mean of about 602.

Gateway Unified runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 2,139 students. Gateway Educational Options is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Gateway Educational Options logs that the largest single group is White, at 69% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 13% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 4% Native American, 3% Black. By comparison, Shasta County as a whole is about 78% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Gateway Educational Options reports 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.0:1. The state averages about 18.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 85% of students at Gateway Educational Options qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Shasta County (around 58%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Shasta County put the typical household earns roughly $72,636 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Gateway Educational Options is one of 95 public schools in Shasta County (combined enrollment of about 26,639 students).

Nearest neighbor: Gateway Community Day, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 24%: 58 students in 2018 compared to 72 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 24.2:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 in 2025.

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