Shasta Meadows Elementary

Shasta Meadows Elementary operates as a small elementary campus in Redding, California, run under Enterprise Elementary. Current enrollment sits at 320 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Shasta Meadows Elementary sits 31% below that benchmark.

Across the 9 schools in Enterprise Elementary (3,668 students total), Shasta Meadows Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Shasta Meadows Elementary logs that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 28% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 6% Asian, 3% Black. By comparison, Shasta County as a whole is about 78% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Shasta Meadows Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 80% of students at Shasta Meadows Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Shasta County runs at roughly 58%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Shasta Meadows Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 31.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.6%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Shasta County put median household earnings sit near $72,636, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Shasta County's 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,639 students), Shasta Meadows Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Alta Mesa Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Shasta Meadows Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Shasta Meadows Elementary at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 37.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Shasta Meadows Elementary's enrollment has declined 19% since 2018, when it stood at 394 (now 320). The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 19% to 28% over that span.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.