About Paradise Unified School District
Paradise Unified School District is a public school system serving Butte County, California, based in Paradise. It serves 1,733 students across 11 schools spanning K–12, and is classified as a rural: distant district. By enrollment it is the #517 largest of California’s 1976 school systems.
Size and structure
Paradise Unified School District enrolls 1,733 students in 11 schools — an average of about 158 students per school. It serves grades K–12 and ranks #517 of 1976 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Paradise Unified School District, from the NCES Common Core of Data (1,733 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Paradise Unified School District employs about 91 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 19.1:1 — below the California average of about 21.7:1, meaning comparatively smaller classes. Total district staff is roughly 299.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How California funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Paradise Unified School District are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
California reports school and district performance on the California School Dashboard, which rates indicators from red to blue across academic performance in English and math, chronic absenteeism, graduation rate, suspension rate, English-learner progress and college-and-career readiness. Look up Paradise Unified School District on the California School Dashboard.
Accreditation status
In California, most schools that seek K–12 accreditation use ACS WASC (the Accrediting Commission for Schools, Western Association of Schools and Colleges) rather than Cognia. Search Paradise Unified School District’s schools in the ACS WASC directory.
Paradise Unified School District vs. California
See every California district side by side in the California directory.
Look up Paradise Unified School District’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):