Grand Oaks Elementary

Grand Oaks Elementary is a cozy elementary campus in Shasta Lake, California, one of the schools within Gateway Unified. The school works with 320 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Grand Oaks Elementary sits 31% leaner than that benchmark.

Gateway Unified runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 2,139 students. Grand Oaks Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Grand Oaks Elementary lists that White students make up the majority at 67%. The remainder breaks down as 16% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 3% Native American, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 78% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 84% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Shasta County (around 58%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Grand Oaks Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.6%, the actual is 34.7%, a residual of +5.1 points.

In the area at large, 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. In all, Shasta County runs 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,639 students), of which Grand Oaks Elementary is one.

Shasta Lake is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Grand Oaks Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Grand Oaks Elementary at 2nd of 4; the average score across the group is 32.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 34%: 239 students in 2018 compared to 320 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 72% to 67% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 23.9:1 in 2018 to 22.1:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.