Does it field a women’s basketball team?
Yes. Porterville College reported 15 women’s basketball participants in the Equity in Athletics return it filed for 2025-26. That is the institution’s own count of the squad, not a roster page Athlavia has read, and it is the figure the United States Department of Education publishes.
It competes in California CC (CCCAA), and no conference affiliation is recorded here. It is one of 92 CCCAA women's basketball programmes in California, out of 161 programmes there in total.
Can it award a basketball scholarship?
The California Community College Athletic Association forbids athletic scholarships outright. What makes these colleges affordable is low tuition and state fee waivers — not athletic aid, and a recruiter who implies otherwise is wrong.
Money is still available here: academic awards, need-based grants and institutional bursaries. What does not exist is an award made because of basketball. A recruiter offering one at a CCCAA institution is describing something the rules do not allow.
What it costs and what it is like
No cost snapshot is held for Porterville College. Athlavia will not print an estimate in its place — tuition varies by residency, by course and by year, and a made-up number is worse than an empty one. The institution’s own admissions pages carry the published figures.
- Type
- Public
- Enrolment
- 1,187
- Selectivity
- Not recorded
- City
- Porterville
- State or region
- California
- Country
- United States
- Campus setting
- suburban
- Climate
- Not recorded
- International share
- 0%
Degrees recorded here
Only the courses Athlavia has read and tagged. It is not the institution’s full prospectus.
- Agricultural Business and Management.
- Agriculture, General.
- Anthropology.
- Biological and Physical Sciences.
- Biology, General.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations.
- Business/Commerce, General.
- Communication and Media Studies.
- Computer and Information Sciences, General.
- Criminal Justice and Corrections.
- Design and Applied Arts.
- Engineering, General.
- English Language and Literature, General.
- Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations.
- Film/Video and Photographic Arts.
- Fine and Studio Arts.
- History.
- Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
- Mathematics.
- Music.
- Philosophy.
- Political Science and Government.
- Public Administration and Social Service Professions, Other.
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
- Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
- Social Sciences, General.
- Sociology.
- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.
How it compares
Across the 92 CCCAA women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 13 players. Porterville College lists 15, 2 players above that average. Among the 92 CCCAA programmes in California, it has the 13th largest listed squad.
Squad size is a fact about the return, not a judgement about the programme. A large squad can mean depth or it can mean a long bench; a small one can mean minutes are available or that the roster is already settled. It is a question to ask a coach, not an answer.
Where these figures came from
| Field | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Squad size | 152025-26 | ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball | 12 Aug 2026 | 96% |
| recruitingBand | 0-182025-26 | ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($1,459/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 8). Division is not used as an input. | 12 Aug 2026 | 55% |
| Degrees | 29 undergraduate degrees listed, including Agriculture, General., Agricultural Business and Management., Communication and Media Studies. | collegescorecard.ed.govCollege Scorecard field latest.programs.cip_4_digit, undergraduate credentials only | 12 Aug 2026 | 90% |
| institutionProfile | held — free account | api.data.govCollege Scorecard v1 /schools, fields school.locale, location.lat, location.lon, latest.student.demographics.race_ethnicity.non_resident_alien, school.school_url read verbatim | 12 Aug 2026 | 92% |
Every stored fact carries the source it came from, the date it was read and how it was extracted. Figures shown on this page without a row above are recorded with the source on the record itself — the athletic aid figure, for instance, carries the Department of Education’s athletics site as its source.