Shasta Elementary School

Set in Klamath Falls, Oregon, Shasta Elementary School is a roomy K-5 school, one of the schools within Klamath County SD. It teaches 505 students across grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 57% bigger than the state mean of about 321.

Klamath County SD runs 21 schools in total, collectively educating 6,774 students. Shasta Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Shasta Elementary School records that the largest single group is White, at 57% of enrollment. Other groups include 23% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 5% Native American, 2% Black. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Shasta Elementary School has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.5:1, putting Shasta Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 93% of students at Shasta Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Shasta Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.4%, the actual is 31.6%, a residual of +5.2 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Klamath County) shows that median household earnings sit near $58,830, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Klamath County runs 30 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,474 students), of which Shasta Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Ferguson Elementary School, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Shasta Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Shasta Elementary School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 27.0%.

Shasta Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 6%: 539 students in 2018 compared to 505 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 13% to 23%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 19.6:1 in 2025.

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