School is Cool

School is cool, ‘cause it makes you smart

You learn reading and writing and math

Geography, music in your brain

Make all your neurons snap

Filling your head with knowledge and rules

About science and history facts

Completing your homework every night

Helps you keep up in class

Paying attention and listening well

Let’s you learn all the things that you should

Raising your hand, asking questions of course

Makes learning easy and good

Learn something new every day and you’ll find

That your confidence grows leaps and bounds

Cause doing your best on the next quiz or test

Makes you the talk of the town

School’s about learning little bits at a time

Skills and ideas big and small

Put them together and what do you have

A person who can do anything at all

So keep up your studies, learn all that you can

High school is next and then college

And let’s not forget that you’re MORE cooler than school

Walkin’ ‘round with a brain full of knowledge

Capay Joint Union Elementary School District is a one-school district with students in Kindergarten through Eighth Grade. It is in the center of what was once the Spanish land grant of El Rancho Capay. When the community decided to build a new schoolhouse, two schools- Capay School in Tehama County and Macintosh School in Glenn County- joined together on the new site, which was on the county line. The school campus is partly in Tehama County and partly in Glenn County, with support services provided by Glenn County Office of Education. When eighth grade students graduate from Capay, they may attend Corning High School in Tehama County or Hamilton Union High School in Glenn County.

Over the years the area has retained its basic agricultural focus. The school is surrounded by dairy and cattle farms, orchards of olives and oranges, and other agricultural ventures such as beekeeping. There is no town of Capay. The nearest towns are Hamilton City and Orland.