Best High Schools in Sutter, CA

Sutter, California, has two high schools serving grades 9–12: Sutter Union High enrolls 734 students, while Butte View High enrolls 26. The most striking difference is attendance: in 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 78% at Butte View, compared with 20% at Sutter Union and 18% statewide.

Sutter Union High has the stronger available test results, though the comparisons are incomplete. In 2024–2025, it scored 52% in English Language Arts (ELA), above the state’s 49%; its math score was 27% versus 37% statewide. In science, Sutter Union scored 28%, compared with 0% at Butte View and 33% statewide—a 28-point gap between the schools. In 2025–2026, Sutter Union was below state results in all three subjects: 44% versus 49% in ELA, 23% versus 38% in math, and 19% versus 36% in science. The state’s 2025–2026 test figures for Butte View are suppressed and unknown, so a full two-school comparison for that year is not possible. Sutter Union also posted a 99% graduation rate versus 88% statewide, and a 1% dropout rate versus 8%.

Sutter Union’s test scores fell from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA declined 9 points, math 4, and science 9, while its gaps to state results widened in each subject. SchoolDigger’s ranking percentile for Sutter Union fell from 56 in 2024–2025 to 38 in 2025–2026; Butte View’s older listed percentiles were 20, 26, and 20 from 2020–2021 through 2022–2023. The schools also differ in size and reported context: in 2024–2025, student-teacher ratios were 21.1 at Sutter Union and 15.9 at Butte View, while free/reduced lunch eligible figures were 25% and 54%, respectively. These are observations about the schools, not explanations for their results.