Blue Oak Charter

Set in Chico, California, Blue Oak Charter is a low-enrollment elementary school, run under Blue Oak Charter District. It educates 219 students across grades K through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Blue Oak Charter sits 53% below that benchmark.

Operationally, Blue Oak Charter answers to Blue Oak Charter District, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On demographics, Blue Oak Charter shows that 52% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 27% Hispanic, 16% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

On the resource side, Blue Oak Charter reports 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.9:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 66% of students at Blue Oak Charter qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Around the school, Butte County reports that the typical household earns roughly $67,928 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Blue Oak Charter is one of 96 public schools in Butte County (combined enrollment of about 29,730 students).

Nearest neighbor: Oakdale, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Blue Oak Charter.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting. Blue Oak Charter is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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