Rancho Tehama Elementary

Set in Corning, California, Rancho Tehama Elementary is a micro-enrollment elementary school, operated by Corning Union Elementary. It hosts 94 students across grades K through 5. That puts it 80% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Within Corning Union Elementary, which oversees 6 schools and 1,976 students, Rancho Tehama Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Rancho Tehama Elementary lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 66%; the rest reads as 27% White, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 29%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Tehama County (around 72%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Rancho Tehama Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 26.9%; this one delivers 12.8%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Tehama County shows median household income runs about $63,784, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Tehama County runs 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,948 students), of which Rancho Tehama Elementary is one.

Flournoy Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 7.3 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Rancho Tehama Elementary at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 21.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rancho Tehama Elementary has decreased 4%, going from 98 students in 2018 to 94 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 57% to 66%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 24.5:1 in 2018 to 23.5:1 today.

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