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Black Butte Junior High

Shingletown, CA · Grades 6-8 · 79 students · Black Butte Union Elementary

The scores are below where anyone wants them. Here's what they don't tell you.

24% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 19% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

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DistrictBlack Butte Union Elementary
PrincipalMegan Coates
Grades6-8
Enrollment79 students

Math

19%

Grades 6 & 8 · Proficient or Advanced

English

24%

Grades 6 & 8 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

79

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

30%

Students absent 10% or more of school days

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The overall score is a starting point.

Look at subject results, trends and student groups, then consider the opportunities your child would use.

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Academic performance

What do the results tell us?

2025 results · Grades 6 & 8 · weighted by students tested within each subject.

Proficient or Advanced combines Levels 3 and 4, formerly Standard Met and Standard Exceeded. California changed the names for 2025–26; the cut scores did not. About the labels →

Share at Proficient or Advanced

0%25%50%75%100%2019: 28%2022: 9%2023: 19%2024: 14%2025: 19%2019: 38%2022: 11%2023: 28%2024: 25%2025: 24%201920222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2019: 28%2022: 9%2023: 19%2024: 14%2025: 19%2019: 38%2022: 11%2023: 28%2024: 25%2025: 24%20192022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
201928%38%
20229%11%
202319%28%
202414%25%
202519%24%

Each year describes that year’s tested students. Changes between years do not follow the same children over time. Cohort-growth evidence, when available, is labeled separately below.

Annual results and the full academic record
Is it getting better · CAASPP 2019 to 2025

Slipped from the 31st to the 10th percentile since 2019.

Most rating sites would stop at “22% proficient” and call it done. Black Butte deserves a closer read. Two-thirds of its students qualify for free or reduced lunch (California: 64%) — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.

Test scores are one lens, and at this school they're a rough one right now. The sections below show the fuller picture — including the parts that are working.

82 tested · 3 of 3 grades published · no cohort tracked

Black Butte Junior High scores 19 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 10th percentile of 2,177 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).

This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 22% meet the standard today, versus 34% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.

Percentile among 2,177 middle schools statewide
Year detailsYear2019 · 31st percentile · Scope Score 28 of 1002022 · 5th percentile · Scope Score 14 of 1002023 · 8th percentile · Scope Score 15 of 1002024 · 16th percentile · Scope Score 22 of 1002025 · 10th percentile · Scope Score 19 of 100
ELAYellow(Increased)MathOrange(Increased)
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ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 623%13%23%11%14%
Grade 753%27%24%23%32%
Grade 854%8%35%43%30%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 69%17%26%7%14%
Grade 718%5%19%13%18%
Grade 846%0%9%22%21%
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

One in five of students here meet the standard. 3% clear it by a lot.

ELA27% met or exceeded
Exceeded 4%Met 23%Nearly Met 38%Not Met 35%
Math18% met or exceeded
Exceeded 2%Met 16%Nearly Met 24%Not Met 57%
Exceeded Met Nearly Met Not Met
California middle schools · average17% exceeded · 40% met or exceeded
This school against the California average
2019–2025 trend · CDE CAASPP
Scope% Exceeded% Met+GrowthAbsenceSuspension
This school193%22%—29.6%11.5%
CA average · Middle School3917%40%—18.1%3.6%
This schoolCA avg
Scope1939
% Exceeded3%17%
% Met+22%40%
Growth——
Absence29.6%18.1%
Suspension11.5%3.6%
California’s growth results and student groups
State growth model · CDE growth model 2024–25

California's own growth model splits here — the 41st percentile in reading against the 63rd in math, among middle schools.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

California runs its own growth model — it follows individual children in grades 4 through 8 and compares each one against a prediction from their own prior scores. On that measure this school sits about at the middle of California middle schools in reading, and the 63rd in math. We show it; we don't score it.

— pts vs expected is scale-score points above or below what California's model predicted for these same children from their own prior-year scores. It is not a percentage and not a percent of anything. A typical California middle school lands at −1 in reading, and the middle half of them fall between −8 and +6 — the spread is wide, so read the rank, not the sign. CDE blends two consecutive years into each published figure, so adjacent years share input data and no year-over-year trend can honestly be drawn from them. It covers grades 4-8 only, and it is not part of the Scope Score — we assessed it and left it out: it tracks school demographics roughly three times as strongly as our own growth measure does, and one published year is not enough to test how stable it is.

California's growth model, ranked against the schools it scores
State model · readingmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, reading: −1 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 41st percentile of 7,519 reported schools.41st pctile · −1 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: +5 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 63rd percentile of 7,518 reported schools.63rd pctile · +5 pts
this school| the tick is the middle of the California field

Students & opportunity

Who shares in the school’s results?

Who it works for · CAASPP 2024–25

Low-income students here meet the ELA standard behind the same group statewide.

At Black Butte Junior High in Shingletown, 27.3% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 29.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Black Butte Junior High trails its district average for low-income students by 2.6 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (20.0% Math proficient); White students (27.5% ELA proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 55 students tested.

Low-income students here trail the state average for their group by 11 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 23% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 23%, district —, state 40%23%
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 24%, district 24%, state 32%24% · +1 vs school
WhiteWhite: this school 22%, district 22%, state 56%22% · −1 vs school
FemaleFemale: this school 21%, district 24%, state 44%21% · −1 vs school
MaleMale: this school 28%, district 25%, state 42%28% · +5 vs school

7 of 12 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.

this school district, same group California, same group
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Student-group results by grade

Results compare different grade groups in the same year, relative to the lowest tested grade. They do not track the same children over time. Groups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.

Low-income student math proficiency rises by 17.9pp from grade 6 to grade 8 at this school. District average: +17.9pp.

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The state's growth model, by student group

California follows these children individually and predicts each one's score from their own prior year. Each row is read against the same group at a typical California middle school — not against zero, and not against this school's all-students figure, because the state's expectation already differs by group.

Reading
English Only65 studentsEnglish Only, reading: −1 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 65 students.−1 pts · −1 vs typical
Low-income students48 studentsLow-income students, reading: −5 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 48 students.−5 pts · −2 vs typical
White43 studentsWhite, reading: −14 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 43 students.−14 pts · −14 vs typical
Math
English Only65 studentsEnglish Only, math: +3 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 65 students.+3 pts · +6 vs typical
Low-income students48 studentsLow-income students, math: +6 scale-score points versus expectation, against −5 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 48 students.+6 pts · +11 vs typical
White43 studentsWhite, math: +1 scale-score points versus expectation, against +1 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 43 students.+1 pts · 0 vs typical
this school typical California middle school, same group| the centre tick is 0 = as predicted

— 1 more group is reported here with between 11 and 29 students. We hold those back on purpose: at that size the figure swings about 17 points on its own, and a quarter of such groups land past the state's top or bottom cut point by chance alone. They are listed with their student counts in the data appendix. — A group not listed at all had fewer than 11 students with a growth score, so California published nothing for it here. That is a privacy protection, not a judgment about those students. — Context only. None of this enters the Scope Score.

The daily experience

What is it like to be a student here?

Students per teacher

Student–teacher ratio is a schoolwide staffing measure, not an average class size.

The people teaching · CDE staffing 2024–25

About 20 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher20 · district 18
Teaching staff7 teachers
Avg. experience8.7 years
Fully credentialed100%
First-year teachers29%
PrincipalMegan Coates
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Teacher salary schedule$49,485 – $104,719
Superintendent salary$137,025

Pay is set by the district, not the school.

Attendance & discipline · 2024–25

Kids here miss more school, and get suspended more, than the state average.

29.6% of students miss a month or more of school, versus 18.1% statewide. High absence often tracks community stress — worth asking about on a tour.

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 29.6%, district 32.0%, state 18.1%29.6% · +11.5pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 11.5%, district —, state 3.6%11.5% · +7.9pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
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Chronic absenteeism by grade band
Grades 4–624.0%
Grades 7–834.3%

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

Explore school spending and the district budget
What gets spent · FY 2024–25

It spends $14,991 per student, about the same as the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

These measure different things: this figure is spending attributed to this campus, while district-wide figures also include central administration, districtwide programs, and the state's pension contributions made on the district's behalf — costs that never get assigned to a single school. The district number runs higher at nearly every school, not just this one.

$681 per student arrives as federal Title funding — a measure of concentrated need, not school quality.

The district's current expense of education per student, from CDE's annual SACS filing — the freshest district spending figure the state publishes.

Per-pupil spendingPer-pupil spending: $14,991, CA average $14,491$14,991 · spent at this school
Federal share$681 per student
District current expense · FY 2024–25$21,898 per student
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 58%Instruction support 11%Student services 13%Administration 9%Buildings & maintenance 9%

District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.

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district detail, 2016–2020 — the newest published
2020$14,674 per pupil
2019$13,683 per pupil
2018$14,148 per pupil
2017$13,521 per pupil
2016$13,164 per pupil
The neighborhood · ACS 2024

Two-thirds of students here qualify for free or reduced lunch, versus three in five statewide.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Worth knowing

At 79 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California middle school (≈860).

On the state's science test (CAST), 21% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 and once in high school, and it never enters the Scope Score.

Hispanic or Latino22.8% · district 17.4% · CA 56.1%
White59.5% · district 66.4% · CA 19.9%
Asian2.5% · district 0.9% · CA 10.2%
Black3.8% · district 2.1% · CA 4.8%
Other11.4% · district 13.2% · CA 9.0%
Free or reduced lunch67.1% · CA 64%
Median income$66K · CA $85K
Median home value$292K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+17% · CA 35%
ZIP population4,239
Median age60 years

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level

Culture & philosophy

What is the school’s approach?

School-stated approach · questions for your visit

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Family voices

What would you want another family to know about the daily experience here?

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What should families understand about teaching, support and the school community?

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What are the alternatives?

Compare schools serving the same grade stage. Private schools have no comparable state-test score.

2025 · middle schools · combined reading and math measures. Percentiles compare schools within their enrollment group.

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Ask what changed in the last two years, and what the school is asking families for. Growth shows up in these numbers a year or two after it shows up in classrooms.

  • Ask how the school follows up when a student starts missing days — chronic absence often starts outside the classroom, not inside it.
  • Ask what typically leads to a suspension, and what happens before it gets there.
  • Ask whether the tour can step into a working classroom — watch how the teacher handles a student who's stuck.
  • Ask to tour while school's in session, and notice how hallways and transitions feel — culture shows up between classes, not just in them.
  • Ask how the school communicates with families when a child starts to struggle.
  • Ask what a typical day looks like for a new student in the first few weeks.
Questions

Frequently asked questions

Is Black Butte Junior High a good middle school?
Black Butte Junior High has a Scope Score of 19 out of 100, placing it in the 10th percentile of California middle schools and ranked #1,954 statewide. 3.4% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 13.8 percentage points below the California average of 17.2%. The Scope Score weights 6 dimensions for middle schools: exceeded standard (42%), met or exceeded (proficient) (23%), grade 6-to-8 growth (20%), chronic absenteeism (5%), suspension rate (5%), and ELPAC English Learner proficiency (5%). Data source: California Department of Education CAASPP 2025, analyzed by SchoolScope.
What are Black Butte Junior High's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 21.7% of students at Black Butte Junior High met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 3.4% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 18.3% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 3.4% went beyond it. Most rating sites report only the combined "proficient" number. SchoolScope surfaces the exceeded-vs-met split because it shows how many students go beyond the standard rather than only meeting it. 164 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does Black Butte Junior High rank in California?
Black Butte Junior High ranks #1,954 among California middle schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 10th percentile. This ranking is based on a weighted composite of 2025 CAASPP test performance (exceeded and met rates), grade-level growth (Grade 6 to grade 8 growth), chronic absenteeism, and suspension rate. Unlike single-number ratings, the Scope Score shows what drives the ranking so parents can decide what matters most to their family. See full methodology.
What is the attendance and school culture like at Black Butte Junior High?
29.6% of students at Black Butte Junior High are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), compared to the California average of 18.1%. The suspension rate is 11.5%. SchoolScope includes these culture metrics in the Scope Score because they reflect day-to-day school experience in ways test scores alone cannot.
How does Black Butte Junior High compare to other schools in Shingletown?
Black Butte Junior High scores 19/100 (10th percentile) among California middle schools. To compare with nearby schools, SchoolScope shows the same metrics side by side: exceeded rate, proficiency, growth trajectory, and school culture indicators. The school serves 79 students. Use the schools in Shingletown page or the map view to compare all middle schools nearby.
How does Black Butte Junior High serve low-income and underrepresented students?
At Black Butte Junior High in Shingletown, 27.3% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 29.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Black Butte Junior High trails its district average for low-income students by 2.6 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (20.0% Math proficient); White students (27.5% ELA proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 55 students tested. SchoolScope shows disaggregated test scores by demographic subgroup so you can see how a school performs for your child's specific group — not just the school-wide average. Subgroup data is context, not part of the Scope Score: we don't penalize schools for who they serve. See our equity approach.

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Public sources, visible methods and the underlying school record. Source years and limitations stay attached to the evidence.

How the Scope Score is calculated

On a narrow screen, scroll the table sideways to see the state comparison and weights.

What the score weighs · CAASPP 2024–25

The 5 things our score weighs

What the score weighs
What we weighHereStateWeight
Exceeded standard3.4%17.2%42%
Met or exceeded21.7%40.0%23%
Chronic absenteeism29.6%18.1%5%
Suspension rate11.5%3.6%5%
Grade gap (G6→G8, different students)+11.5pp+1.5pp—

Source CAASPP 2025 · California Department of Education. Measures test performance, attendance, and climate — not arts, community, or your kid. How the score is built

A closer look at the evidence

Black Butte Junior High: reading the evidence

Black Butte posts low test scores — and grade 8 tests above grade 6 here this year, by 11.5pp. If this is your zoned school, the numbers below are where to start a conversation, not where to end one.

Subject proficiency describes tested students, while graduation describes a graduating cohort. These figures are not successive stages followed by the same students.

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Every number: score factors, grades, student groups and downloads
Every number · For the data nerds

Every number on this page

Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and nearest schools.

Black Butte Junior High is ranked #1,954 statewide.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Score factors
FactorSchoolStateWeight
Exceeded standard3.4%17.2%42%
Met or exceeded21.7%40.0%23%
Chronic absenteeism29.6%18.1%5%
Suspension rate11.5%3.6%5%
Grade gap (G6→G8, different students)+11.5pp+1.5ppnot scored
Exceeded standard
↓ vs CA 17.2% · index 35 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint
Met or exceeded
↓ vs CA 40.0% · index 36 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint
Chronic absenteeism
↓ vs CA 18.1% · index 34 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint · ▼ 9.9pp lower vs 2024
Suspension rate
↓ vs CA 3.6% · index 18 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint · ▼ 6.9pp lower vs 2024
Grade gap (G6→G8, different students)
↑ vs CA +1.5pp
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
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ELATestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 62110%5%29%57%14%−32
Grade 7280%32%36%32%32%−15
Grade 8333%27%45%24%30%−16
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 6215%10%5%81%14%−20
Grade 7280%18%32%50%18%−16
Grade 8333%18%30%48%21%−11

We show the grade rows CDE publishes for this school. A missing grade or dash can mean the school does not serve that grade, that we hold no valid result for it, or that the tested group was too small to report. It does not mean zero.

Science (CAST)TestedEXCMETNEARNOT
Schoolwide330%21%70%9%

CAST is tested in grades 5 and 8, then once in grade 10, 11, or 12. This row is the school's all-student aggregate. Not part of the Scope Score.

Subgroup · ELATestedMET+vs districtvs CA
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged5527.3%−3−11
White5127.5%+0−34
03Nearest middle schoolssorted by Scope Score · Grade gap = grade 3 vs grade 5, this year, different students; Cohort growth = one school's returning cohort tracked across grades (mostly, not exactly, the same kids), in scale-score points — that's the measurement the Scope Score weights
SchoolDistScopeEXCMET+Grade gapCohort growthSusp
Black Butte Junior High ←—193.4%21.7%+11.5pp—11.5%
California average—3917.2%40.0%+1.5pp—3.6%
04More measurescontext · not all part of the Scope Score
ShowHide table 04 — More measures
YearScopePctileRankExcMet+AbsentSuspGrade gap
20192831#13527.7%33.7%14.8%4.1%+34.1pp
2022145#20081.5%11.8%41.7%4.0%-11.1pp
2023158#19485.2%22.5%42.7%22.2%-2.5pp
20242216#18045.3%19.8%39.6%18.5%+23.7pp
20251910#19543.4%21.7%29.6%11.5%+11.5pp
Grade gap = this year's grade 3 vs grade 5 result, two different sets of students, not a trend for any one child — it is not the measurement the Scope Score's growth dimension uses. See §01 above and /methodology#verdicts for the school's actual scored (cohort) growth.
NO STATEWIDE TESTING 2020–21 (COVID) · SCORE AND PERCENTILE ARE RELATIVE TO EACH YEAR'S FIELD
What we can't show
  • — Low-income students here trail the state average for their group by 11 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.
05Climate by student groupchronic absenteeism · 2019 vs 2025 — the two years CDE publishes at subgroup level
ShowHide table 05 — Climate by student group
Group20192025Δ
Female18.2%33.3%+15.1pp
Male13.2%29.8%+16.6pp
Hispanic/Latino7.1%40.0%+32.9pp
White18.2%29.3%+11.1pp
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged18.4%40.0%+21.6pp
All Students15.5%31.6%+16.1pp
Students with Disabilities—41.2%—
06California growth model, by student group2025 · scale-score points vs the state's prediction · shown, never scored
ShowHide table 06 — California growth model, by student group
GroupReadingnCDE bandMathnCDE band
All Students−169Average+569Accelerated
English Only−165not categorised+365not categorised
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged−548Average+648Accelerated
White−1443Moderate+143Average
Hispanic or Latino+1414Accelerated+1014Accelerated

Whole scale-score points above or below what CDE's model predicted for these same children from their own prior-year scores — not a percentage, not a percentile. Statewide a typical school lands near +1 with a spread of about 13 points either side, so read a figure against its group's own typical value, not against zero. Muted rows have fewer than 30 students with a growth score — published by CDE, held back from the narrative sections above because at that size the figure swings about 17 points on its own. “Not categorised” is CDE assigning no band — English Only, Recently Reclassified, and English Learners Only receive a value and no band, for every school in the state. It is not a missing number. Most figures blend two consecutive years, so adjacent published years share input data and no trend line can honestly be drawn across them. A group absent from this table had fewer than 11 students with a growth score and was never published. Grades 4-8 only. None of this enters the Scope Score — it is more strongly correlated with school demographics than our own growth measure, and one published year is not enough to test its reliability.

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EXC = exceeded standard · MET+ = met or exceeded ("proficient") · Source: CA Dept. of Education · CAASPP 2024–25 · n=2,177 middle schools · Vintages: climate subgroups 2019+2025 · district finance per its label · ACS 2022 · Data updated 2026-09-27

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