Shasta Lake

Shasta Lake operates as a moderately sized elementary-level community in Shasta Lake, California, overseen by Gateway Unified. Current enrollment sits at 602 students spanning grades K through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Shasta Lake sits 29% above that benchmark.

Within Gateway Unified, which oversees 7 schools and 2,139 students, Shasta Lake is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Shasta Lake records that 68% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 15% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 6% Native American, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 78%.

On the resource side, Shasta Lake records 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Shasta Lake tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 77% of students at Shasta Lake qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Shasta County's rate of about 58%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Shasta Lake performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.6%, the actual is 29.3%, a residual of -4.3 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Shasta County shows median household earnings sit near $72,636, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Shasta County's 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,639 students), Shasta Lake is one campus in the mix.

Central Valley High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Shasta Lake comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 34.1%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 9%: 663 students in 2018 compared to 602 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, members of the Shasta Lake community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.