Shasta Union Elementary

The Shasta Union Elementary list includes one school, Shasta Elementary, serving kindergarten through grade 8 with 100 students. Its 2025–26 results show a split academic picture: all-grade English language arts (ELA) proficiency was 53%, compared with 49% statewide, while math was 26% versus 38%, and science was 19% versus 36%. The most important takeaway is that ELA is above the state, but math—and especially science—falls well below it.

With only one school listed, Shasta is both the highest- and lowest-scoring local school, and there is no meaningful school-to-school comparison. Its clearest strength is grade 3 ELA: 69% proficient, 25 percentage points above the state’s grade 3 result. The largest grade-level shortfalls among the reported results are grade 5 math, at 15% versus 37% statewide, and grade 5 science, at 15% versus 35%. Shasta’s overall results also show the subject gap clearly: ELA is 4 points above the state, while math is 12 points below and science 17 points below.

Results improved in ELA but not across all subjects: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, Shasta’s ELA proficiency rose by 6 percentage points and moved from below to above the state; math increased by 1 point and remained about 12 points behind. Science fell by 6 points as the state improved, widening Shasta’s gap by 10 points. SchoolDigger’s ranking rose from the 33rd percentile in 2023–24 to the 51st in 2024–25, then eased to the 49th in 2025–26; its latest rating is 2 stars, down from 3 the prior year. Other context includes a 17.8 student–teacher ratio in 2024–25 and 62% free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Attendance is a positive contrast: chronic absenteeism was 5% in 2025–26, 13 percentage points below the statewide rate. These measures provide context, not evidence of what caused the academic results.