Blue Oak Charter is a K-8 school.

It serves grades K-8 (California Department of Education school directory), so it has no graduating class and there is nothing to measure for UC admissions. Its enrollment, student body and state test results are below.

Blue Oak Charter

Chico · Butte County · Chico Unified · Public

Public Butte County Chico Unified → CDS 0461424…
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How Blue Oak Charter compares for families

What families should know about Blue Oak Charter.

  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Paradise Junior High, Achieve Charter School Of Paradise Inc., Children's Community Charter and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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Chronic absenteeism — 2024-25

Share of students missing 10% or more of expected attendance — the leading indicator that often precedes the demand decline shown above. Families disengaging tend to raise absenteeism first, then formally leave. Basis: total enrollment.

36% of students miss 10%+ of school days — above the state's ~21%. Ask what the school is doing about engagement.
Chronic absent
35.5%
86 of 242 students

Absenteeism is up 9.3 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

Butte County median
20.8% · school is worse than 80% of 25 HS
Statewide median
20.9%
Chronic absenteeism by year (raw %)

Source: California Department of Education, Chronic Absenteeism 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 eligible students. CDE didn't publish a usable 2019-20 file (COVID).

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment
375 (2018)197 (2026)
-47.5%

If this trend holds (-7.7%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~182 -15 $0
3 yr (2029) ~155 -42 $0
5 yr (2031) ~132 -65 $0

Straight-line extrapolation of the recent annual rate — a what-if, not a forecast of intent. Default = California's LCFF base grant for grades 9–12 ($12,423/ADA). Edit the figure to match your school.

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Your similar-school group includes

Paradise Junior High · Achieve Charter School Of Paradise Inc. · Children's Community Charter · Paradise Charter Middle · Walden Academy · Forest Ranch Charter · +4 more

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Enrollment stability & demand — 2024-25

Two complementary signals: retention (do students stay once enrolled?) and demand (are families choosing the school?). Read against the Butte County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

78% of students who start the year finish it here — more churn than most CA schools. Ask what's behind the turnover.
Stability rate
77.9%
194 of 249 students

55 of 249 students who enrolled at Blue Oak Charter this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (22.1% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Butte County median
85.4% · school is in the 32nd percentile of 25 HS
Statewide median
88.7% · in the 20th percentile of 2,689 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (173) 74.0%
White (126) 82.5%
Hispanic / Latino (70) 74.3%
Students w/ disabilities (52) 78.8%
Two or more races (37) 70.3%

Nearest peer high schools

Paradise Junior High 73.7% Achieve Charter School Of Paradise Inc. 74.6% Children's Community Charter 86.0% Paradise Charter Middle 90.8% Walden Academy 91.6%

Source: California Department of Education, Stability Rate 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 cumulative enrollees so by-design-high-churn continuation schools don't dominate the bottom of the distribution. Cumulative enrollment counts every student on the rolls during the year, so it can exceed peak-day enrollment.

District financial profile — Chico Unified (FY2020)

From 4 years of NCES F-33 filings (the federally-mandated district finance survey). Public schools don't have their own books — the district does. These figures show the financial scale, revenue dependence, instruction-vs-overhead mix, and long-term debt that shape what a school can sustain.

Total revenue
$195.1M
+9.7% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$16,379
11,911 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 48.2%
Local: 40.3%
Federal: 11.5%
Instruction share
59.6%
of current spending · $8,696/pupil
Long-term debt
$159.8M
+67.3% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($M)
Total expenditure by year ($M)

Source: NCES F-33 Annual Survey of School System Finances (Urban Institute Education Data API). Latest year currently published: FY2020. F-33 is a district-level federal filing — it reflects the Chico Unified as a whole, not this individual school's books. Revenue mix shows where the district's dollars come from (state aid dominates in CA via LCFF). Instruction share is current expenditure on instruction ÷ total current expenditure (national benchmark ~60%). Long-term debt is end-of-year outstanding (mostly facilities bonds).

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