Summary:
Zip code 96099 has three elementary schools serving kindergarten through grade 8, except Redding Community Day, which serves grades 1–8. Enrollment ranges from 18 students at Redding to 100 at Shasta Elementary; Monarch Learning Center has 85. In 2024–2025, average proficiency across the three schools was 27% in ELA and 14% in math, compared with statewide results of 49% and 37%—shortfalls of 22 and 23 percentage points. The most important area-wide finding is that ELA and math results were substantially below state averages, despite one school’s stronger performance.
Shasta led the schools in 2024–2025, with 47% proficient in ELA and 25% in math; Monarch had 24% and 18%, while Redding had 9% and 0%. Shasta’s ELA result was 2 points below the state. Monarch stood out in science: its 31% result was the highest reported and 1 point below the state. In 2025–2026, Shasta’s ELA reached 53%, 4 points above the state, while its math was 12 points below and science 17 points below. Redding remained lowest in ELA and math, with 0% and 5%—49 and 33 points below the state; its science score was suppressed.
Results changed differently by school and subject: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Shasta rose 6 points in ELA and 1 in math but fell 6 in science; Redding fell 9 points in ELA and rose 5 in math. SchoolDigger ranked Shasta at the 49th percentile in 2025–2026, following the 33rd percentile in 2023–2024 and 51st in 2024–2025; Monarch’s 8th-percentile ranking was from 2023–2024, so it is not a same-year comparison. Ratios were 17.8 students per teacher at Shasta, 17 at Monarch, and 8.8 at Redding. For 2024–2025, Shasta and Monarch reported 62% and 80% free/reduced lunch eligible; Redding reported 83% directly certified for free meals. These are context, not explanations for test results. Redding’s 2025–2026 chronic absenteeism was 64%, compared with 18% statewide, while Shasta’s was 5%.
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