Best Public Schools in Sutter, CA

Sutter, California, has three schools serving kindergarten through grade 12: Brittan Elementary (K–8), Sutter Union High and Butte View High (grades 9–12), with 1,299 students combined. In 2025–26, the two schools with reported results averaged 38% proficient in English language arts (ELA), 26% in math and 19% in science, compared with state rates of 49%, 38% and 36%. Butte View High’s proficiency results are suppressed, so they are unknown, not zero. The clearest shared academic challenge in the reported results is science, where the average school result was 17 percentage points below the state.

Sutter Union High leads in all-grades ELA at 44%, 12 points above Brittan Elementary’s 32%, though still 6 points below the state. Brittan Elementary leads in math at 29%, 6 points above Sutter Union High and 9 points below the state; its seventh- and eighth-grade math results also exceed state rates by 6 and 4 points. The schools are essentially tied in science, at 19% each, and both trail the state. Sutter Union High stands out for graduation: 99%, compared with 88% statewide. Butte View High has the highest chronic absenteeism, 78%, versus 18% statewide.

Results moved in different directions: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, Sutter Union High fell 9 points in ELA and science, while Brittan Elementary rose 2 points in ELA and 7 in science. Across the two schools, average gaps from state results widened by 4 points in ELA, 3 in math and 4 in science. SchoolDigger ranks Sutter Union High at the 38th percentile (2 stars) and Brittan Elementary at the 23rd percentile (1 star); Butte View High’s latest supplied ranking is the 20th percentile (1 star) in 2022–23. In 2024–25, student-teacher ratios were 21.1 at Sutter Union High, 20.5 at Brittan Elementary and 15.9 at Butte View High. Free/reduced lunch eligible figures that year were 25%, 35% and 54%, respectively; these describe school context, not the cause of results.