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Oroville, California - 6 schools
358
Total Enrollment
6
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Per-Pupil Spending
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Butte County Office of Education operates 6 public schools serving 358 students, placing it among the smallest districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 5 combined, 1 high schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Butte County.
The funding mix is 45.7% local, 29.0% state, and 25.3% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 57.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 51.1% White, 23.0% Hispanic or Latino, 3.8% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Butte County Community, with a diversity index of 73.0/100.
Its largest campus is Hearthstone, enrolling 185 students (49% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Bases Learning Center, at 11 students, a 17x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Hearthstone accounts for 49.5% of all Butte County Office of Education student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Butte County Office of Education a distant remainder — means Butte County Office of Education-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Butte County Office of Education school enrollment varies 17× across entities
Butte County Office of Education school enrollment ranges from 11 students (lowest) to 185 students (highest), a spread of 174 students. That spread reflects typical mixed-portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Butte County Office of Education has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 75.6% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility — including this one — receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Butte County Office of Education chronic absenteeism rate is 57.2% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Comparisons are relative to Butte County Office of Education's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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How many schools are in Butte County Office of Education?
Butte County Office of Education has 6 schools, including 5 combined, 1 high. Total enrollment is 358 students.
What is the demographic composition of Butte County Office of Education?
Butte County Office of Education students are 51.1% White, 23.0% Hispanic or Latino, 3.8% African American, 0.4% Asian, averaged across 6 schools. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.