Mt. Shasta Elementary

Mt. Shasta Elementary, a low-enrollment primary school in Mount Shasta, California, operated by Mt. Shasta Union Elementary, educates 195 students, covering grades K through 3. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Mt. Shasta Elementary sits 58% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 2 schools in Mt. Shasta Union Elementary (469 students total), Mt. Shasta Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Mt. Shasta Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%). Other groups include 11% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.5:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 42% of students at Mt. Shasta Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Siskiyou County (around 65%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mt. Shasta Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 54.8%; Mt. Shasta Elementary posts 38.4%, -16.4 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Siskiyou County) logs that median household earnings sit near $59,095, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Siskiyou County runs 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,059 students), of which Mt. Shasta Elementary is one.

Sisson is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mt. Shasta Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 32.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Over the past 7-year window. Mt. Shasta Elementary's enrollment has contracted 22% since 2018, when it stood at 250 (now 195). Class-load math has tightened: from 20.8:1 in 2018 to 19.5:1 in 2025.

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