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If you could change one rule at Shasta Elementary School, what would it be?
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Enrollment
505
Elementary
DISTRICT 294 · STATE 321
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·KLAMATH COUNTY SD·NCES 410702000503
Shasta Elementary School
1951 Madison St, Klamath Falls, OR 97603 · (541) 883-5060 · Klamath County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY33-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL505 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 52% of Oregon public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Oregon public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
19.6:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.9:1 · STATE 16.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
471 students
DISTRICT 93% · STATE 76%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 64 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 67 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 72 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 87 | 17% |
| Grade 6 | 73 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is 12% smaller than its 6th grade class (73).
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
OSAS 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
42.8%
OR avg 43.0% . +3.3pp since 2023
Math
27.1%
OR avg 31.8% . -6.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the OSAS, Oregon's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Oregon schools, those numbers are about 43 and 32. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 6 points.
OSAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 42.8% | 27.1% |
| 2023-24 | 39.5% | 33.5% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: OSAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
31.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.4%
based on OR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% typical for Oregon schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Oregon's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Shasta Elementary School
Shasta Elementary School's state test result (31.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shasta Elementary School this school | 505 | 93.3% | 31.6% |
| Peterson Elementary School Klamath Falls | 573 | 92.3% | 25.9% |
| Taft Elementary School Lincoln City | 464 | 90.9% | 19.6% |
| Kalapuya Elementary School Salem | 483 | 88.4% | 47.5% |
| Battle Creek Elementary School Salem | 426 | 89.2% | 23.1% |
| Ferguson Elementary School Klamath Falls | 524 | 93.7% | 41.6% |
Matched among Oregon elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Shasta Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Oregon | In Klamath County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.6% | #341 of 591 | #6 of 15 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.1% | #416 of 646 ▼ 109 | #11 of 15 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.8% | #302 of 646 ▲ 41 | #5 of 15 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 505 | #59 of 710 | #3 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.6:1 | #509 of 587 | #8 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.4% | #145 of 587 | #2 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.3% | #113 of 645 | #7 of 15 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.3% | #439 of 493 | #6 of 8 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
505
-60 (-11%) vs 2020
-12% since 1990-91, when it was 575
Student : Teacher
19.6:1
was 20.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 505 | 25.8 | 19.6:1 | 93% (471) |
| 2023-24 | 508 | 28.6 | 17.8:1 | 75% (382) |
| 2022-23 | 518 | 30.3 | 17.1:1 | 73% (378) |
| 2020-21 | 565 | 28 | 20.2:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 539 | 25.5 | 21.2:1 | 59% (316) |
| 2015-16 | 549 | 25 | 22.0:1 | 59% (322) |
| 2010-11 | 504 | 24 | 21.0:1 | 64% (322) |
| 2000-01 | 526 | 22 | 23.9:1 | 38% (199) |
| 1990-91 | 575 | 26 | 22.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Shasta Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (539 to 505); teachers up 1% (25.5 to 25.8).
About Shasta Elementary School
Shasta Elementary School is a high-enrollment elementary school based in Klamath Falls, Oregon. The school runs kindergarten through 6 and enrolls 505 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Oregon enroll about 321 students on average.
Klamath County SD is responsible for 21 schools, Shasta Elementary School included, with 6,774 students in all.
More than half of the students at Shasta Elementary School are White (57%). Next come 23% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 5% Native American, and 2% Black. That compares with about 77% White among all Klamath County residents. The diversity index for Shasta Elementary School is 60%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Its staff includes 25.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 19.6 students per teacher. The gap from the 16.5:1 average for elementary schools in Oregon is 3.1 students per teacher. Roughly 93% of students at Shasta Elementary School can receive free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Klamath County is similar, at 95%.
On the allk12 Grade, Shasta Elementary School lands at B-, ahead of 52% of Oregon public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Shasta Elementary School, the prediction is 26.4% and the result is 31.6%.
The school's county is Klamath County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $58,830, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 23%, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. There are 30 public schools in the county, enrolling about 9,474, Shasta Elementary School among them.
The closest school to Shasta Elementary School is Ferguson Elementary School, located about 0.8 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Shasta Elementary School. On proficiency, Shasta Elementary School is ahead of the 27.0% nearby average, ranking 3rd of 7.
The school's locale code, Town: Remote, means it is in a town far from an urbanized area.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was an 11% decline, from 565 to 505.
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Klamath County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
70,247
Census ACS
Median income
$58,830
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
30
9,474 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Klamath County SD
- Henley High SchoolHigh · 720 students
- Mazama High SchoolHigh · 690 students
- Peterson Elementary SchoolElementary · 573 students
- Ferguson Elementary SchoolElementary · 524 students
- Henley Elementary SchoolElementary · 493 students
- Henley Middle SchoolMiddle · 413 students
Other schools in Klamath Falls
- Henley High SchoolHigh · 720 students
- Mazama High SchoolHigh · 690 students
- Klamath Union High SchoolHigh · 671 students
- Peterson Elementary SchoolElementary · 573 students
- Ponderosa Middle SchoolMiddle · 561 students
- Ferguson Elementary SchoolElementary · 524 students
Other Shasta Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 2 states are named Shasta Elementary. Shasta Elementary School is the 3rd largest of the 4.
- Shasta ElementaryManteca, CA · 726 students
- Shasta ElementaryChico, CA · 621 students
- Shasta ElementaryShasta, CA · 100 students
Nearby schools
- Ferguson Elementary School0.8 mi · 524
- Mazama High School1.2 mi · 690
- Peterson Elementary School1.6 mi · 573
- Stearns Elementary School1.8 mi · 354
- Klamath Learning Center1.9 mi · 180
- Klamath Home Learning Academy1.9 mi · 45
Frequently asked questions
About Shasta Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Shasta Elementary School?
Shasta Elementary School enrolls approximately 505 students in grades KG-06.
Is Shasta Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Shasta Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
How many teachers does Shasta Elementary School have?
Shasta Elementary School employs 26 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.6:1.
How diverse is Shasta Elementary School?
Shasta Elementary School reports a student body of 57% White, 23% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is Shasta Elementary School public or private?
Shasta Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Klamath County SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.