Shasta Elementary

Shasta Elementary, a large elementary school in Manteca, California, one of the schools within Manteca Unified, works with 726 students, covering grades K through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Shasta Elementary sits 56% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Manteca Unified, which oversees 30 schools and 25,347 students, Shasta Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Shasta Elementary reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 71%. The remainder reads as 17% White, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Shasta Elementary has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.9:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 79% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, San Joaquin County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Shasta Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.5%, the actual is 24.8%, a residual of -7.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for San Joaquin County put the typical household earns roughly $92,179 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across San Joaquin County's 251 public schools (combined enrollment of about 153,026 students), Shasta Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Golden West Elementary, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Shasta Elementary comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 21.3%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Shasta Elementary has declined 8%, going from 787 students in 2018 to 726 in 2025.

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