Bonny View Elementary, Redding CA

Original Research by School Decision on Bonny View Elementary

Bonny View Elementary is a small kindergarten-through-fifth-grade school in Redding, located on the city's north side. The school serves just over a small student body, of which a substantial share qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a community with notable economic need. The student body is diverse: the plurality are white students, with meaningful representation of Hispanic students and American Indian/Alaska Native students, and smaller populations of Asian, Black, and multiracial students.

Academic performance at Bonny View is below the midpoint among Shasta County elementary schools. In math, overall proficiency stands at a low level across grades three through five, with fourth grade showing particularly weak results. English language arts results are similarly low overall, though third grade performs somewhat better than the upper grades. Fifth-grade science proficiency is also low. These results reflect the reality that fewer than a third of students at this school are meeting grade-level standards in tested subjects. This pattern holds across the school and has not shifted within the limited data available. A parent may want to discuss with the school leadership what targeted support exists for students working below grade level, and what early intervention or remedial instruction is in place, particularly given the proportion of students from lower-income households.

The school offers music instruction, which provides a bridge to the arts for students in the primary and upper elementary grades. Course access details beyond this were not available in the provided data.

Redding itself is the county seat and regional hub for far Northern California, built around a revitalizing downtown core anchored by healthcare, retail, and offices. The city has two major hospitals and draws workers and shoppers from surrounding smaller towns. The downtown area is walkable, with recent investment in bikeways and pedestrian infrastructure, and civic anchors like Turtle Bay Exploration Park and the Sundial Bridge draw residents to the riverfront. The broader housing market is moderate in cost relative to the state; single-family homes have declined slightly in value over the past year, while rental costs have risen modestly. The local economy is expanding with new residential subdivisions on the city's edges and downtown mixed-use projects, though housing is still recovering from the effects of a major wildfire earlier in the decade.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 348%

School 48% · District 53% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▲ 5 pts above state median · even with county median

Grade 418%

School 18% · District 41% · ▼ 23 pts below district

▼ 19 pts below state median · ▼ 24 pts below county median

Grade 522%

School 22% · District 32% · ▼ 10 pts below district

▼ 9 pts below state median · ▼ 7 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 343%

School 43% · District 50% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▲ 2 pts above state median · ▼ 5 pts below county median

Grade 421%

School 21% · District 42% · ▼ 21 pts below district

▼ 22 pts below state median · ▼ 27 pts below county median

Grade 536%

School 36% · District 46% · ▼ 10 pts below district

▼ 9 pts below state median · ▼ 12 pts below county median

Science

Grade 518%

School 18% · District 28% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▼ 10 pts below state median · ▼ 16 pts below county median

This schoolRedding Elementary, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income34%Higher-income64%30 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income43%Higher-income60%17 pp gap