Hearthstone

Set in Oroville, California, Hearthstone is an one-room-style unified-grade school, one of the schools within Butte County Office of Education. It teaches 185 students across grades K through 12. That puts it 69% leaner than the typical public school in California, which averages around 602 students.

Across the 6 schools in Butte County Office of Education (374 students total), Hearthstone accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Hearthstone records that the largest single group is White, at 58% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 22% Hispanic, 15% multiracial, 3% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 70% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.1:1. The state averages around 18.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 76% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Butte County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Hearthstone is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 34.1%; Hearthstone posts 17.1%, -17.0 points below that line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Butte County put the typical household earns roughly $67,928 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Butte County's 96 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,730 students), Hearthstone is one campus in the mix.

Heritage Community Day is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hearthstone. On composite proficiency, Hearthstone comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 25.0%.

Hearthstone operates from an outlying location. Hearthstone is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 36%: 290 students in 2018 compared to 185 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

On allk12, the feed for Hearthstone typically covers sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.