Rother Elementary

Rother Elementary is a primary school of compact scale in Redding, California, operated by Enterprise Elementary, enrolling 280 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Rother Elementary sits 40% below that benchmark.

Enterprise Elementary comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 3,668 students; Rother Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Rother Elementary lists that the largest single group is White at 41%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 32% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 10% Asian, 4% Black. By comparison, Shasta County as a whole is about 78% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.2:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 83% of students at Rother Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Shasta County runs at roughly 58%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Rother Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 29.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 18.4%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Shasta County) logs that median household income runs about $72,636, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Shasta County's 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,639 students), Rother Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Parsons Junior High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rother Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Rother Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 40.6%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Rother Elementary's enrollment has declined 21% since 2018, when it stood at 356 (now 280). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 25.4:1 in 2018 to 22.2:1 today.

On the community side, the feed for Rother Elementary typically covers classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.