Butte View High

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No UC admissions data on file for Butte View High.

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 (9–12)
34 (2018)19 (2026)
-44.1%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
9 (2018)10 (2026)
+11.1%

If this trend holds (-7.0%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~18 -1 $0
3 yr (2029) ~15 -4 $0
5 yr (2031) ~13 -6 $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 Sutter County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

Mixed signal
Demand outpacing county is masking internal churn.

Enrollment growth is beating Sutter County (+11.1% vs. -1.2%), but 9 of 29 students didn't maintain continuous enrollment. Why are families leaving once enrolled? Chronic absenteeism is also at 82.1% (up +16.1 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.

+11.1%  school enrollment (2018–2026)
-1.2%  Sutter County baseline
+12.3pp  gap vs. county
69.0%  retention (county median 87.5%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2018
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
69.0%
20 of 29 students

9 of 29 students who enrolled at Butte View High this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (31.0% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Sutter County median
87.5% · school is in the 14th percentile of 7 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 23rd percentile of 1,688 HS

Nearest peer high schools

Valley Oak Continuation High 43.3% Feather River Academy 26.9% Esperanza High (continuation) 18.9% Colusa Alternative High (continuation) 20.0% Coastal Buttes Academy 78.6%

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.

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.

Chronic absent
82.1%
23 of 28 students

Absenteeism is up 16.1 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

Sutter County median
17.1% · school is worse than 100% of 7 HS
Statewide median
22.9%
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).

SBAC academic outcomes — grade 11, 2023

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.

ELA — met or exceeded
n = —
36.4%
incl. 0.0% exceeded
Math — met or exceeded
n = —
0.0%
incl. 0.0% exceeded

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 47%
Hispanic / Latino 47%
Two or more 5% +1.6

Program subgroups

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.

District financial profile — Sutter Union High (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
$11.0M
+24.4% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$13,560
808 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 63.1%
Local: 29.9%
Federal: 7.0%
Instruction share
49.3%
of current spending · $6,129/pupil
Long-term debt
$18.3M
-15.0% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($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 Sutter Union High 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).

Butte View High — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is up 11% (9→10 from 2018 to 2026), tracking the peer-group median of +10%.
  • At its recent rate (-7.0%/yr), enrollment projects to ~15 by 2029 — about 4 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

19 students (2026)
~15 projected (2029)
at -7.0%/yr

That's about 4 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
Butte View High Public 19 +11%
Peer-group median +10%
Valley Oak Continuation High Public 17 +25%
Feather River Academy Public 26 -70%
Esperanza High (continuation) Public 20 -37%
Colusa Alternative High (continuation) Public 24 +86%
Coastal Buttes Academy Public 9 +50%
S. William Abel Academy Public 39 +20%
Willows Community High Public 17 +57%
Princeton High Public 44 -35%
Wheatland Community Day High Public 7 +0%
Mid Valley High (continuation) Public 7 -62%

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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