Redway Elementary

Redway Elementary, a low-enrollment K-5 school in Redway, California, operated by Southern Humboldt Joint Unified, teaches 272 students, covering grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 42% smaller than the state mean of about 465.

Redway Elementary is one of 8 schools operated by Southern Humboldt Joint Unified, a district that educates 647 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Redway Elementary logs that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 33% Hispanic, 17% multiracial, 3% Native American. By comparison, Humboldt County as a whole is about 72% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Redway Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 78% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Humboldt County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Redway Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 33.1%; Redway Elementary posts 17.5%, -15.5 points below that line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Humboldt County) logs that median household earnings sit near $61,160, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Humboldt County's 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,319 students), Redway Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Osprey Learning Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Redway Elementary has held roughly steady, going from 277 students in 2018 to 272 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 72% to 47%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 23.1:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 today.

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