Durham High

Located at 9455 Putney Dr., in Durham, California, Durham High is a rural-scale senior high that educates 320 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by Durham Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Durham High sits 62% leaner than that benchmark.

Durham Unified runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,048 students. Durham High is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Durham High records that the largest single group is White, at 67% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 24% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Butte County as a whole.

On the resource side, Durham High lists 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. About 39% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Butte County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Durham High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.4%, the actual is 49.3%, a residual of -7.1 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Butte County put the typical household earns roughly $67,928 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Durham High is one of 96 public schools in Butte County (combined enrollment of about 29,730 students).

Durham Intermediate is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Durham High. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Durham High ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 37.5%.

Durham High operates from an outlying location.

Over the past 7-year window. Durham High's enrollment has grew 12% since 2018, when it stood at 286 (now 320). White enrollment moved from 73% to 67% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.1:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 today.

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