Shasta Elementary

Set in Shasta, California, Shasta Elementary is a very small elementary campus, part of Shasta Union Elementary. It instructs 100 students across grades K through 8. That puts it 78% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Shasta Union Elementary is the operating authority for Shasta Elementary, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

Demographically, Shasta Elementary shows that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 10% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 4% Native American, 2% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Shasta County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Shasta Elementary records 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 62% of students at Shasta Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

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 42.6%, the actual is 29.1%, a residual of -13.4 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Shasta County put the typical household earns roughly $72,636 per year, 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), Shasta Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Grant Elementary, around 3.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Shasta Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Shasta Elementary at 4th of 5; the average score across the group is 49.7%.

Shasta Elementary operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 36%: 156 students in 2018 compared to 100 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share decreased from 12% to 5%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 today.

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