Redding Elementary

Redding Elementary is an elementary school of compact scale in San Francisco, California, operated by San Francisco Unified, instructing 240 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 48% below typical.

San Francisco Unified comprises 106 schools with combined enrollment of 48,706 students; Redding Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Redding Elementary lists that the most-represented group is White (28%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 28% Hispanic, 20% Asian, 12% Black, 10% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 39% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Redding Elementary has 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 26.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 70% of students at Redding Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against San Francisco County (around 54%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Redding Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.8%, the actual is 27.3%, a residual of -10.5 points.

Around the school, San Francisco County reports that the typical household earns roughly $140,970 per year, roughly 60% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, San Francisco County runs 132 public schools (combined enrollment of about 56,505 students), of which Redding Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Spring Valley Elementary, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Redding Elementary. On composite proficiency, Redding Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 42.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 7%: 225 students in 2018 compared to 240 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share climbed from 16% to 28%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 21.4:1 in 2018 to 26.7:1 today.

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