Plum Valley Elementary

Plum Valley Elementary is an elementary school of minimally staffed scale in Paynes Creek, California, operated by Antelope Elementary, enrolling 20 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 96% below the state mean of about 465.

Within Antelope Elementary, which oversees 4 schools and 788 students, Plum Valley Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Plum Valley Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%); the rest looks like 10% Native American, 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Tehama County as a whole is about 67% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Plum Valley Elementary reports 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.9:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 70% of students at Plum Valley Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Across the wider county, Tehama County reports that median household earnings sit near $63,784, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Tehama County's 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,948 students), Plum Valley Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Black Butte Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 12.6 miles from this campus.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Plum Valley Elementary's enrollment has rose 54% since 2018, when it stood at 13 (now 20). The White share of enrollment rose from 69% to 85% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.