Butte Vista Elementary

Butte Vista Elementary is one of the roomy K-5 schools in Yuba City, California, part of Yuba City Unified, with 853 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. That puts it 83% larger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Yuba City Unified runs 17 schools in total, collectively educating 11,388 students. Butte Vista Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Butte Vista Elementary reports that the most-represented group is Asian (31%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 30% Hispanic, 26% White, 10% multiracial. That is noticeably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 18%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Butte Vista Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 59% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Butte Vista Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 53.0%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Sutter County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $79,704 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Sutter County runs 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,784 students), of which Butte Vista Elementary is one.

Tierra Buena Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Butte Vista Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 36.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 8%: 927 students in 2018 compared to 853 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 36% to 26% across the same window.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.