Chico Country Day

Chico Country Day is one of the reasonably sized K-5 schools in Chico, California, run under Chico Country Day District, with 585 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Chico Country Day sits 26% above that benchmark.

Chico Country Day is a school of Chico Country Day District, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On demographics, Chico Country Day reports that 67% of the student body identifies as White; the rest breaks down as 17% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 4% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Butte County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 26% of students at Chico Country Day qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Butte County (around 63%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Butte County) logs that median household earnings sit near $67,928, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Chico Country Day is one of 96 public schools in Butte County (combined enrollment of about 29,730 students).

Butte County Community is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting. As a public charter, Chico Country Day runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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