Achieve Charter School Of Paradise Inc.

· Butte County · Paradise Unified
Public Butte County 🏛 Paradise Unified → CDS 0461531…
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No UC admissions data on file for Achieve Charter School Of Paradise Inc..

This school doesn't appear in UCOP's source-school records (it may send few or no applicants to UC). Its enrollment trend and similar-school comparison are still below.

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment
236 (2018)169 (2025)
-28.4%

If this trend holds (-4.7%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2026) ~161 -8 $0
3 yr (2028) ~146 -23 $0
5 yr (2030) ~133 -36 $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.

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.

Stability rate
74.6%
144 of 193 students

49 of 193 students who enrolled at Achieve Charter School Of Paradise Inc. this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (25.4% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Butte County median
85.4% · school is in the 28th percentile of 25 HS
Statewide median
88.7% · in the 18th percentile of 2,648 HS

Stability by student group

White (140) 76.4%
Socio. disadvantaged (126) 71.4%
Students w/ disabilities (48) 70.8%
Hispanic / Latino (28) 75.0%

Nearest peer high schools

Hometech Charter 55.5% Paradise Charter Middle 90.8% Paradise Junior High 73.7% Children's Community Charter 86.0% Blue Oak Charter 77.9%

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.

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.

Chronic absent
13.8%
26 of 189 students

Absenteeism is up 11.2 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 better than 88% 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).

District financial profile — Paradise 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
$52.2M
+12.0% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$34,081
1,533 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 68.1%
Local: 15.7%
Federal: 16.3%
Instruction share
59.8%
of current spending · $12,235/pupil
Long-term debt
$10.0M
+1932.5% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($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 Paradise 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).

Achieve Charter School Of Paradise Inc. — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • At its recent rate (-4.7%/yr), enrollment projects to ~146 by 2028 — about 23 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

169 students (2025)
~146 projected (2028)
at -4.7%/yr

That's about 23 fewer students. At per-student funding of $ per student, that's roughly $0 in annual state funding at risk.

Default = California's LCFF base grant for grades 9–12 ($12,423 per ADA) — adjust to your district's actual per-pupil figure. Projection extrapolates the recent annual rate — not a forecast of intent.

Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools

School Type Size UC Reach Enroll. trend
Achieve Charter School Of Paradise Inc. Public 169
Peer-group median 7.8% -20%
Hometech Charter Public 145 +41%
Paradise Charter Middle Public 145
Paradise Junior High Public 223
Children's Community Charter Public 220
Blue Oak Charter Public 197
Forest Ranch Charter Public 105
Fair View High (continuation) Public 100 -20%
Paradise High School Public 502 3.0% -46%
Ridgeview High (continuation) Public 56 -37%
Inspire School Of Arts And Sciences Public 299 12.5% -18%

UC Reach = top-6 UC admits ÷ senior class (can exceed 100% when students are admitted to multiple campuses). Enrollment trend = first-to-latest grade-12 change on file. Similar schools matched on proximity, size, type. Methodology →

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