Redding Collegiate Academy

Redding Collegiate Academy is one of the minimally staffed all-grades campuss in Redding, California, one of the schools within Enterprise Elementary, with 219 students on its rolls from grades K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 64% leaner than the state mean of about 602.

Redding Collegiate Academy is one of 9 schools operated by Enterprise Elementary, a district that works with 3,668 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Redding Collegiate Academy lists that White students make up the majority at 68%. Beyond that, the school reports 16% multiracial, 11% Hispanic, 3% Asian, 2% Native American. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 78%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Redding Collegiate Academy has 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 26.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.6:1, putting Redding Collegiate Academy higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 58% of students at Redding Collegiate Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Redding Collegiate Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.7%, the actual is 34.5%, a residual of -10.1 points.

In the broader community, census data for Shasta County shows the typical household earns roughly $72,636 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Shasta County's 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,639 students), Redding Collegiate Academy is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is PACE Academy, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Redding Collegiate Academy. On composite proficiency, Redding Collegiate Academy comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 37.9%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting. Redding Collegiate Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 115%: 102 students in 2018 compared to 219 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 23% to 11% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 34.0:1 in 2018 to 26.9:1 today.

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