About Us

Mount Shasta Elementary School, located 75 miles south of the Oregon border at the base of its 14,179-foot namesake, houses approximately 201 Transitional Kindergarten through 3rd grade students. Using Mt. Shasta as our daily inspiration, we work as a team to trek up the mountain of standards-based education. Our team consists of 33 staff members all working collaboratively to provide quality education to children academically, emotionally, and physically.

With a clear vision and goals to guide us, we provide a strong curriculum, effective teaching strategies, appropriate materials, and sufficient support to ensure all students become proficient in the standards. Through evidence-based instruction, we maintain a balanced language arts and math program. Our students receive whole group instruction with small group guided lessons that differentiate instruction. Rather than cutting science and social studies to focus on math and reading, we utilize our environment to enhance our science and social studies curricula. The Mount Shasta area offers many natural resources that can be incorporated into our outdoor science programs. Our school garden and in class grow labs provide hands-on science projects for full-school use. Through these programs, we integrate reading, writing, and math into our science and social studies curricula and offer myriad opportunities for our students to apply their skills to real-world problems and their solutions.

Our students and families are supported through a variety of classroom activities and community organizations. At school, students learn to resolve conflicts among themselves rather than expecting adults to intervene. Our school counselors provide whole-class, small-group, and one-to-one interventions for students' social/emotional wellness.  Partners such as Mt. Shasta Resource Center, PIE (Partners in Education), The Mt. Shasta Education Foundation, and the Mt. Shasta Recreation Department are all an integral part of providing a well-balanced education for our students. Our music program develops our students’ personalities, heritages, and emotions.  Parents and community volunteers are an integral part of our programs. Numerous parents and foster grandparents volunteer their time daily. These team members nurture our children’s lives by sharing their areas of expertise and providing individual attention and acknowledgment.

As we climb the mountain of standards-based education through our team of staff, parents, and the community, we can prepare our students academically, physically, socially, and emotionally for the journey of life.