Oak Bridge Academy

Oak Bridge Academy is a K–12 alternative school in Chico, California, serving 188 students as part of Chico Unified. Its clearest local strength is English language arts, where it outperformed nearby schools with reported results, but its math and science scores remain well below district and state levels. The most important concern is that this ELA advantage does not extend to math and science.

In 2025–2026, 48% of students were proficient in ELA—7 percentage points below the district and 2 below California—yet this was the highest result among nearby schools with reported scores, ahead of Achieve Charter at 41%. Math proficiency was 22%, 18 points below the district and 16 below the state; science was 21%, 22 points below the district and 15 below the state. In both subjects, Oak Bridge ranked second among nearby schools with reported results, behind Achieve, which had 35% in math and 33% in science. Graduation was 89%, slightly above the state’s 88% but below the district’s 94%; meanwhile, chronic absenteeism was 28%, compared with 18% statewide, and dropout was 11%, compared with 8% statewide.

Math has made the strongest four-year progress: proficiency rose 14 percentage points, from 8% in 2022–2023 to 22% in 2025–2026. ELA gained 7 points, while science ended 2 points lower than it began, despite improving by 4 points in the latest year; its gap with the state widened from 7 to 15 points. Chronic absenteeism has fallen 17 points since 2021–2022, though it rose from 24% to 28% in the latest year. For context, the 2024–2025 student-teacher ratio was 18.9, above the nearby-school average of 16.5. In that same year, 58% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible, 8 percentage points below the nearby-school average. School-level SchoolDigger rankings and stars were not provided.