Wyandotte Academy

Wyandotte Academy is a low-enrollment elementary-level community in Oroville, California, part of Oroville City Elementary. The school enrolls 249 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 46% leaner than the state mean of about 465.

Within Oroville City Elementary, which oversees 6 schools and 1,950 students, Wyandotte Academy is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Wyandotte Academy records that the most-represented group is White (29%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 28% Asian, 20% Hispanic, 15% multiracial, 7% Black. The wider county runs roughly 70% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 82% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Butte County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Wyandotte Academy tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 30.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 34.0%.

In the broader community, census data for Butte County shows median household income runs about $67,928, 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), Wyandotte Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: The Studios @ Central, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Wyandotte Academy. On composite proficiency, Wyandotte Academy comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 21.6%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 26%: 336 students in 2018 compared to 249 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 38% to 29% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.4:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 today.

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