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Butterfield Charter

Porterville · Tulare County · Porterville Unified · Public

Public Tulare County Porterville Unified → CDS 5475523…

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At a glance

Programs & features

Gifted & talented program

Academic signals

AP rigor: Bottom 22% of US high schools
4-yr grad rate: 62% in 2019 (Bottom 12% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts graduation data, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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California College-Going Rate

23.1% of the 2022-23 graduating class enrolled in college within a year.

The share of 2022-23 graduates who enrolled at a college anywhere in the U.S. within 12 months, per the National Student Clearinghouse match the California Department of Education publishes.

Within 12 months

23.1%

of 143 graduates

Give the same class four more months and 24.5% had enrolled — CDE publishes a 16-month window alongside the 12-month one, 35 students.

Down 1.9 points from the 2021-22 class (25%).

Where the 2022-23 class enrolled

In California — 31 students (21.7%)

University of California 0.0% 0

California State University 1.4% 2

California Community College 19.6% 28

California private college 0.7% 1

Out of state — 2 students (1.4%)

Out-of-state 4-year 0.7% 1

Out-of-state 2-year 0.7% 1

CDE puts each graduate in one bucket only — whichever kind of college they were enrolled in longest — so these add up to the rate above. That is a different count from the UC Reach Score on this page, which counts a student at every UC campus that admitted them.

Source: California Department of Education, College-Going Rate (DataQuest) ↗, cohort 2022-23, posted 17-Sep-2025. Data file: cgr12mo23.txt ↗ (and the 16-month file ↗). CDE builds the rate by matching California high school completers to National Student Clearinghouse enrollment records; we publish CDE’s aggregates and hold no student-level data.

SAT / ACT participation

CRDC federal data · 2020-21

SAT/ACT test-takers

11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test

Test-taking intensity

0.0

takers per 100 students in grades 9-12

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.

4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts

What % of students graduate on time?

Bottom 12% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate

4-year graduation rate

62%

Range: 60–64%

4-year cohort size

152

Students in the 9th-grade entry class tracked over 4 years

Compared against

17,988

US high schools reporting 4-year ACGR

Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.

Federal Title I context

High-poverty school

Title I Schoolwide eligible

94.0%

FRPL rate — % of students who qualify for the federal Free or Reduced-Price Lunch program. This is the underlying federal income-eligibility signal Title I designations are computed from (ESEA Sec. 1113).

0% (no FRPL) 35% TA · 40% Schoolwide 100% (universal FRPL)

≥75% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. These schools qualify for the highest tier of federal Title I funding and typically receive extra wraparound services. Academic outcomes vary widely — check the state assessment + grad-rate tiles.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.

College readiness

Getting ready for college

These come from the state and federal files, not from UC — so they are here whether or not Butterfield Charter has a UC admissions record.

Student-Counselor Ratio ⓘ

Each counselor juggles about 365 students — above the level experts recommend. Ask how junior-year college advising is handled.

365:1

1.0 FTE counselors · 365 students

In context: CA median 337:1 · ASCA target 250:1.

A-G Completion ⓘ

Fewer than 1 in 10 graduates finish the courses UC and CSU require — below the state norm. Worth asking how course access and planning work here.

16 of 233 graduates · 2024-25 cohort

In context: CA median 55.9% · -49.0 pp vs. median · Tulare Co. 42.7%.

SBAC academic outcomes — grade 11, 2025

Share of grade-11 students meeting or exceeding the California standard on Smarter Balanced ELA and Math. This is the academic-readiness signal that pairs with UC Reach (post-grad outcomes), stability (retention), and absenteeism (engagement). Note: statewide median Math is only ~20% — a school at 20% isn't an outlier; one at 45%+ genuinely is.

About 1 in 10 students read and write at grade level — below the state norm — worth asking what extra support looks like.

Fewer than 1 in 10 students do math at grade level — below the state norm — worth asking what extra support looks like.

ELA — met or exceeded

n = 175

14.9%

incl. 1.7% exceeded

-42.4 pts vs. Tulare County median (57.3%) · CA median 54.5% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.4%

Math — met or exceeded

n = 176

2.8%

incl. 0.0% exceeded

-17.1 pts vs. Tulare County median (19.9%) · CA median 21.4% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 53.6%

Source: California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) Smarter Balanced research files. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥30 tested students.

Student composition — 2025-26

HS grades 9–12 racial/ethnic composition and program subgroups, from CDE Census Day Enrollment. Two-year shift shown when ≥1 pt — surfaces how the community served has changed since 2023-24.

Race / ethnicity

Hispanic / Latino 75%

White 17% -1.1

American Indian 4% +1.2

Not reported 2% +1.1

Two or more 1%

Asian 1%

Black / African Am. 1%

Program subgroups

Socioeconomically disadv. 92% +19.0

English learners 20% -2.6

Students w/ disabilities 6% -1.8

Source: California Department of Education, Census Day Enrollment 2025-26 (HS grades 9–12). Δ shown when shift is ≥1 pt since 2023-24. Categories below 0.5% omitted.

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: grades 9–12.

25% of students are chronically absent — near the state norm of about 23%.

Chronic absent

24.6%

151 of 613 students

Absenteeism is down 34.1 pp since 2016-17. Engagement improving — a positive trajectory worth understanding and reinforcing.

Tulare County median

17.1% · school is worse than 75% of 32 HS

Statewide median

22.8%

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 (9–12)

362 (2018) → 365 (2026)

+0.8%

Grade 12 (graduating class)

197 (2018) → 196 (2026)

-0.5%

If this trend holds (+4.3%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon	Projected Total enrollment	Change	Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027)	~381	+16	$0
3 yr (2029)	~415	+50	$0
5 yr (2031)	~451	+86	$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.

How does Butterfield Charter really compare on getting kids to college?

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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 Tulare County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

44% of students who start the year finish it here — more churn than most CA schools. Ask what's behind the turnover.

Critical

Bleeding from both ends.

Enrollment down 0.5% vs. county +2.8%, AND stability (44.5%) below the county median. Fewer families are choosing the school, and the ones who do aren't staying through year-end.

-0.5% senior class, grade 12 (2018–2026)

+2.8% Tulare County baseline

-3.3pp gap vs. county

44.5% retention (county median 86.2%)

Senior class (grade 12) — indexed to 100 at 2018

Stability rate by year (raw %)

Stability rate

44.5%

293 of 659 students

366 of 659 students who enrolled at Butterfield Charter this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (55.5% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Tulare County median

86.2% · school is in the 22nd percentile of 32 HS

Statewide median

87.3% · in the 14th percentile of 1,734 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (648) 44.3%

Hispanic / Latino (536) 42.0%

English learners (161) 40.4%

White (114) 44.7%

Students w/ disabilities (74) 35.1%

American Indian / AN (23) 52.2%

Nearest peer high schools

Porterville Military Academy 89.6% Strathmore High School 82.4% Harmony Magnet Academy 95.8% Citrus High 32.8% Granite Hills High 84.5%

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 — Porterville 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

$276.7M

+34.5% since FY2017

Per-pupil revenue

$19,253

14,372 students enrolled

Revenue mix

State: 72.0%
Local: 12.3%
Federal: 15.7%

Instruction share

59.9%

of current spending · $8,081/pupil

Long-term debt

$49.3M

-20.7% 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 Porterville 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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