Stellar Charter

Set in Redding, California, Stellar Charter is a low-enrollment combined-grade school, part of Redding Elementary. It serves 273 students across grades K through 12. Compared to the state average of about 602 students per school, that is 55% leaner than typical.

Redding Elementary comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 2,958 students; Stellar Charter is among them.

Demographically, Stellar Charter logs that White students make up the majority at 75%. Beyond that, the school reports 11% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 2% Native American. That composition is broadly in line with Shasta County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.6:1, putting Stellar Charter higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 42% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Shasta County's rate of about 58%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Stellar Charter performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.4%, the actual is 49.9%, a residual of -4.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Shasta County shows the typical household earns roughly $72,636 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Shasta County runs 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,639 students), of which Stellar Charter is one.

Nearest neighbor: Redding Community Day, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Stellar Charter. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Stellar Charter ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 44.7%.

The school occupies an urban site. Stellar Charter is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Stellar Charter has edged up 21%, going from 226 students in 2018 to 273 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 82% to 75%.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.