Core Butte Charter School

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Top 10 ELA proficiency in Butte Top 8 Math proficiency in Butte

Where grads go — and what it costs & pays

UC admits by campus · Class of 2023

UCD

4 admitted

Net $14,741/yr avg

Grads earn $80,838 @10yr

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Sources: UC Office of the President (admits); IPEDS net price + College Scorecard 10-yr earnings (cost & payoff). Full campus-by-campus breakdown below.

California College-Going Rate

63.5% 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

63.5%

of 96 graduates

Give the same class four more months and 67.7% had enrolled — CDE publishes a 16-month window alongside the 12-month one, 65 students.

Up 4.2 points from the 2021-22 class (59.3%).

Where the 2022-23 class enrolled

In California — 58 students (60.4%)

University of California 1.0% 1

California State University 9.4% 9

California Community College 49.0% 47

California private college 1.0% 1

Out of state — 3 students (3.1%)

Out-of-state 4-year 3.1% 3

Out-of-state 2-year 0.0% 0

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.

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How Core Butte Charter School compares for families

What families should know about Core Butte Charter School.

▸ Locally📘 Top 10 in Butte County on ELA proficiency — plus 1 more top-rank.
▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Durham High School, Inspire School Of Arts And Sciences, Paradise High School and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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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 6 in 10 students read and write at grade level — above the state norm.

About 1 in 3 students do math at grade level — above the state norm.

ELA — met or exceeded

n = 98

61.2%

incl. 33.7% exceeded

+11.2 pts above Butte County median (50.0%) · CA median 54.5% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.4%

Math — met or exceeded

n = 98

30.6%

incl. 9.2% exceeded

+2.6 pts above Butte County median (28.0%) · 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

White 75% +3.9

Hispanic / Latino 17% -1.6

Two or more 6%

Black / African Am. 1%

Asian 0%

Not reported 0%

Program subgroups

Socioeconomically disadv. 44% -4.5

Students w/ disabilities 18%

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.

Kids show up: 10% are chronically absent versus about 23% statewide — engagement most schools would envy.

Chronic absent

9.5%

41 of 433 students

Low and stable absenteeism — students are engaged and showing up. The leading indicator is healthy.

Butte County median

25.9% · school is better than 100% of 13 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)

392 (2024) → 405 (2026)

+3.3%

Grade 12 (graduating class)

116 (2024) → 103 (2026)

-11.2%

If this trend holds (+1.6%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon	Projected Total enrollment	Change	Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027)	~412	+7	$0
3 yr (2029)	~425	+20	$0
5 yr (2031)	~439	+34	$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

Durham High School · Inspire School Of Arts And Sciences · Paradise High School · Hamilton Union High School · Willows High School · Hometech Charter · +4 more

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.

82% of students who start the year here finish it here.

Action needed

Demand declining faster than county; retention only average.

Enrollment is shrinking faster than Butte County (school -11.2% vs. county -8.9%) with stability (81.8%) near the county median. Two problems compounding — the recruitment side is the higher-leverage starting point.

-11.2% senior class, grade 12 (2024–2026)

-8.9% Butte County baseline

-2.3pp gap vs. county

81.8% retention (county median 81.8%)

Senior class (grade 12) — indexed to 100 at 2024

Stability rate by year (raw %)

Stability rate

81.8%

356 of 435 students

79 of 435 students who enrolled at Core Butte Charter School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (18.2% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Butte County median

81.8% · school is in the 54th percentile of 13 HS

Statewide median

87.3% · in the 32nd percentile of 1,734 HS

Stability by student group

White (714) 83.3%

Socio. disadvantaged (559) 80.3%

Hispanic / Latino (188) 75.5%

Students w/ disabilities (186) 77.4%

Two or more races (85) 74.1%

Nearest peer high schools

Durham High School 95.1% Inspire School Of Arts And Sciences 86.4% Paradise High School 80.2% Hamilton Union High School 96.2% Willows High School 90.1%

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.

UC Reach Score ⓘ methodology

UC Application Reach Score ⓘ

N/A

13 applications

UC Admit Rate ⓘ

30.8%

4 / 13 applications

In context: CA median 25.2% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 38.9% · higher than 74% of CA HS.

UC Yield Rate ⓘ

N/A

— enrolled of 4 admitted

Yield vs. Enrollment Reach: Yield answers "of UC admits, what % chose UC?" — denominator is just the admits. A small admitted cohort can post a low yield even when the school sends a healthy share of its class to UC.

UC Enrollment Reach Score ⓘ

N/A

— enrollees / — seniors

Enrollment Reach vs. Yield: Reach answers "of the whole senior class, what share ended up at UC?" — denominator is everyone. High Yield with low Enrollment Reach is common at elite privates: most admits matriculate, but the school sends most of its class to non-UC selective colleges.

A-G Completion ⓘ

Only 1 in 3 graduates finish the courses UC and CSU require — below the state norm. Worth asking how course access and planning work here.

31%

30 of 97 graduates · 2024-25 cohort

In context: CA median 55.9% · -25.0 pp vs. median · Butte Co. 28.7%.

Selective UC Reach (UCB, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, UCI — incl. the Elite two) ⓘ

N/A

Elite UC Reach (UCB + UCLA) ⓘ

N/A

Senior Class Size ⓘ

N/A

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Total School Enrollment ⓘ

N/A

All grades · CDE Census Day

Avg. Applicant GPA · top-6 UCs ⓘ

3.83

UC Outcomes Trend — 2021–2023

UC Admit Rate %

UC Reach Score (where available)

UC Admits (count, right axis)

Class size from CDE grade 12 enrollment. Campus-level data: applicant and admit totals count a student once at EACH campus. A senior admitted to UCLA and UC San Diego adds 2 to the admit total, so the total can exceed the senior class — that is the metric working as defined, not an error. The admit RATE is unaffected: both its numerator and denominator are campus-level.

Campus Breakdown — 2023

Campus	Applicants	Admits	Enrollees	Admit Rate	UC Reach Score	Yield	Avg GPA (App)	Avg GPA (Adm)
UCLA → Elite	5	—^†	—^†	—^†	—^†	—	3.79	—^†
UC Davis →	8	4	—^†	50.0%	—	—	3.85	—^†

† = UCOP-suppressed (count below 3 students, hidden for privacy — actual value is 0, 1, or 2, not necessarily zero). Campus-level totals may count one student admitted to multiple UC campuses more than once; Admit Volume metrics are not the same as UC Reach, which is measured against the whole senior class. See methodology →

What This Means

Note: the UC Reach Score sums campus-level admits across the top-six UC campuses, so a student admitted to both UCLA and UCSD is counted at each. It reflects competitive admit volume relative to class size — admit-events, not distinct students — which is why a Score can exceed 100.

Senior class size is estimated from CDE grade 12 enrollment data. Reach percentages should be interpreted as approximate.

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