Cottonwood Creek Charter is a K-8 school.

It serves grades K-8 (California Department of Education school directory), so it has no graduating class and there is nothing to measure for UC admissions. Its enrollment, student body and state test results are below.

Cottonwood Creek Charter

Cottonwood · Shasta County · Cottonwood Union Elementary · Public

Public Shasta County Cottonwood Union Elementary → CDS 4569955…

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#1 Math proficiency in Shasta Top 5% Math proficiency in CA Top 5 ELA proficiency in Shasta

How Cottonwood Creek Charter compares for families

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▸ Locally🧮 #1 in Shasta County on Math proficiency — plus 2 more top-ranks.
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Chronic absenteeism — 2024-25

Share of students missing 10% or more of expected attendance — the leading indicator that often precedes the demand decline shown above. Families disengaging tend to raise absenteeism first, then formally leave. Basis: total enrollment.

Kids show up: 6% are chronically absent versus about 21% statewide — engagement most schools would envy.

Chronic absent

6.4%

19 of 297 students

Absenteeism is up 6.4 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

Shasta County median

18.1% · school is better than 86% of 29 HS

Statewide median

20.9%

Chronic absenteeism by year (raw %)

Source: California Department of Education, Chronic Absenteeism 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 eligible students. CDE didn't publish a usable 2019-20 file (COVID).

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment

225 (2018) → 307 (2026)

+36.4%

If this trend holds (+4.2%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon	Projected Total enrollment	Change	Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027)	~320	+13	$0
3 yr (2029)	~347	+40	$0
5 yr (2031)	~376	+69	$0

Straight-line extrapolation of the recent annual rate — a what-if, not a forecast of intent. Default = California's LCFF base grant for grades 9–12 ($12,423/ADA). Edit the figure to match your school.

How does Cottonwood Creek Charter really compare on getting kids to college?

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Your similar-school group includes

West Cottonwood Junior High · Tree Of Life International Charter · Chrysalis Charter · Redding STEM Academy · Parsons Junior High · Buckeye School Of The Arts · +4 more

Enrollment stability & demand — 2024-25

Two complementary signals: retention (do students stay once enrolled?) and demand (are families choosing the school?). Read against the Shasta County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

Families don't leave: 95% of students who start the year finish it here — top-tier retention statewide.

Stability rate

95.0%

286 of 301 students

15 of 301 students who enrolled at Cottonwood Creek Charter this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (5.0% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Shasta County median

82.3% · school is in the 97th percentile of 29 HS

Statewide median

88.7% · in the 86th percentile of 2,689 HS

Stability by student group

White (258) 95.7%

Socio. disadvantaged (87) 92.0%

Students w/ disabilities (37) 91.9%

Nearest peer high schools

West Cottonwood Junior High 83.9% Tree Of Life International Charter 91.7% Chrysalis Charter 88.1% Redding STEM Academy 86.6% Parsons Junior High 83.7%

Source: California Department of Education, Stability Rate 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 cumulative enrollees so by-design-high-churn continuation schools don't dominate the bottom of the distribution. Cumulative enrollment counts every student on the rolls during the year, so it can exceed peak-day enrollment.

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