Happy Camp Union Elementary

Located at 114 Park Way, in Happy Camp, California, Happy Camp Union Elementary is a very small primary school that hosts 79 students (grades K through 8), run under Happy Camp Union Elementary. That puts it 83% leaner than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Happy Camp Union Elementary sits inside Happy Camp Union Elementary, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Happy Camp Union Elementary lists that the most-represented group is Native American (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 34% White, 20% multiracial, 8% Hispanic.

Looking at school resources, Happy Camp Union Elementary lists 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.8:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Siskiyou County runs at roughly 65%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Happy Camp Union Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 57.6%; this one comes in at 16.6%, -41.1 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Siskiyou County indicate median household earnings sit near $59,095, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Happy Camp Union Elementary is one of 52 public schools in Siskiyou County (combined enrollment of about 6,059 students).

Nearest neighbor: Happy Camp High, around 0.3 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Happy Camp Union Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 31.0%.

Happy Camp Union Elementary operates from an outlying location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Happy Camp Union Elementary has contracted 27%, going from 108 students in 2018 to 79 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.6:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

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