Come Back Butte Charter: The scores are below where anyone wants them. Here's what they don't tell you.
Come Back Butte Charter posts low test scores — and suspensions run below the state rate (1.6% vs 3.6%). If this is your zoned school, the numbers below are where to start a conversation, not where to end one.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Grad rate | College readiness | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 8 | 0% | 2% | 34.3% | 0.0% | 49.8% | 1.6% |
| CA average · High School | 44 | 16% | 36% | 87.6% | 35.4% | 30.2% | 3.6% |
Come Back Butte Charter scores 8 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 1st percentile of 2,160 California high schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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🌱 Building Momentum — This label means the data doesn't clearly sort the school one way or the other — ask what the school is proud of, and what it's working on.
Most rating sites would stop at “2% proficient” and call it done. Come Back Butte Charter deserves a closer read. The school sits in Oroville, where nearly all students qualify for free or reduced lunch — 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.
As a charter, Come Back Butte Charter enrolls by application rather than address. That changes how you get in, but it doesn't change the score.
The seven-year arc
Has stayed near the 1st percentile since 2019.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 2% meet the standard today, versus 13% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 25% | 0% | 11% | 6% | 5% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
The story this school is actually telling
Of 100 students here: 2 are proficient by 11th grade → 34 graduate → 0 pass an AP exam. The gaps between those bars are the questions to ask.
The 6 things our score weighs
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 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.
How every group of students does here
At Come Back Butte Charter in Oroville, 4.8% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 16.7% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Come Back Butte Charter trails its district average for low-income students by 11.9 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (0.0% Math proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 21 students tested.
10 of 13 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
Showing up, and staying in class
Where the path goes
The path below is estimated from nearby schools in the same district — scores shown for each next step.
Estimated K-12 path based on district and proximity. Actual attendance zones may differ. Contact your school district for official feeder information.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
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.
$2,188 per student arrives as federal Title funding — a measure of concentrated need, not school quality.
District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.
Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →
The neighborhood it serves
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level
At 93 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California high school (≈1450).
Frequently asked questions
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Nearby High Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 34
A low score doesn't tell the whole story. Read: Your School Scored Low — Here's What That Actually Means
Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 21 | 0% | 5% | 24% | 71% | 5% | −42 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 20 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 100% | 0% | −23 |
| Subgroup · ELA | Tested | MET+ | vs district | vs CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 21 | 4.8% | −12 | −33 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Come Back Butte Charter ← | — | 8 | 0.0% | 2.4% | — | 1.6% |
| Oroville High | 0.7 mi | 44 | 12.6% | 31.6% | — | 3.4% |
| Las Plumas High | 1.9 mi | 39 | 10.1% | 23.6% | — | 5.9% |
| Prospect High (Continuation) | 1.4 mi | 17 | 4.2% | 15.2% | — | 11.3% |
| California average | — | 44 | 15.8% | 35.7% | — | 3.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 11 | 3 | #1973 | 3.1% | 12.5% | 45.1% | 2.7% | — |
| 2022 | 7 | 1 | #2083 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 59.0% | 2.4% | — |
| 2023 | 8 | 2 | #2113 | 0.0% | 5.6% | 61.0% | 2.1% | — |
| 2024 | 10 | 2 | #2090 | 2.8% | 2.8% | 45.6% | 1.9% | — |
| 2025 | 8 | 1 | #2141 | 0.0% | 2.4% | 49.8% | 1.6% | — |
- — Low-income students here trail the state average for their group by 33 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 60.4% | 57.3% | -3.1pp |
| Male | 66.7% | 68.4% | +1.7pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 56.5% | 64.4% | +7.9pp |
| American Indian/Alaska Native | 71.4% | 63.6% | -7.8pp |
| Two or More Races | 57.1% | 46.2% | -10.9pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 44.4% | 75.0% | +30.6pp |
| Homeless | 65.0% | 68.5% | +3.5pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 65.6% | 62.8% | -2.8pp |
| All Students | 63.3% | 63.1% | -0.2pp |
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