Chapman Elementary

Chapman Elementary is one of the modestly sized elementary campuss in Chico, California, part of Chico Unified, with 311 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. That puts it 33% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Across the 22 schools in Chico Unified (12,260 students total), Chapman Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Chapman Elementary records that 44% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 26% White, 11% multiracial, 7% Asian, 5% Native American. By comparison, Butte County as a whole is about 20% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Chapman Elementary lists 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.1:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Butte County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Chapman Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.3%, the actual is 18.6%, a residual of -6.7 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Butte County indicate the typical household earns roughly $67,928 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Chapman Elementary is one of 96 public schools in Butte County (combined enrollment of about 29,730 students).

Nearest neighbor: Sherwood Montessori, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Chapman Elementary comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 49.0%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Chapman Elementary has climbed 7%, going from 292 students in 2018 to 311 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 34% to 26% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.