Freshwater Elementary School is a rural K-6 public school located 5 miles northeast of Eureka, California. The school setting is on a large parcel among redwood trees and includes expansive areas for recreation and appreciation for nature of the California North Coast. The Freshwater School District, which in more recent years has developed a charter school for seventh and eighth graders on the same site, modernized 10 classrooms in 2003 and recently finished building two new classrooms, a band room and a large community gym to augment a smaller multi-purpose building and gym that has existed since the most recent school was built on the site in 1952.