The Studios @ Central

The Studios @ Central operates as a close-knit middle-grades school in Oroville, California, one of the schools within Oroville City Elementary. Current enrollment sits at 300 students spanning grades 5 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 54% leaner than the state mean of about 659.

Oroville City Elementary runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 1,950 students. The Studios @ Central is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, The Studios @ Central reports that the largest single group is White at 41%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest consists of 24% Hispanic, 18% Asian, 10% multiracial, 5% Black. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. An estimated 76% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Butte County's rate of about 63%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, The Studios @ Central falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 34.0%; this one comes in at 14.0%, -20.0 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Butte County) logs that median household income runs about $67,928, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Butte County's 96 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,730 students), The Studios @ Central is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Wyandotte Academy, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, The Studios @ Central comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 24.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at The Studios @ Central has fell 27%, going from 410 students in 2018 to 300 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 19% to 24% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 19.7:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.