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Big Valley Jr. Sr. High

Bieber, CA · Grades 7-12 · 43 students · Big Valley Joint Unified

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DistrictBig Valley Joint Unified
PrincipalTeresa Ragsdale
Grades7-12
Enrollment43 students

Math

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Grade 11 · Proficient or Advanced

English

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Grade 11 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

43

Total enrollment

Graduation

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Four-year graduation rate

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Academic performance

What do the results tell us?

2025 results · Grade 11 · weighted by students tested within each subject.

Proficient or Advanced combines Levels 3 and 4, formerly Standard Met and Standard Exceeded. California changed the names for 2025–26; the cut scores did not. About the labels →

Share at Proficient or Advanced

0%25%50%75%100%2019: 7%2022: 33%2019: 36%2022: 33%201920222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2019: 7%2022: 33%2019: 36%2022: 33%20192022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
20197%36%
202233%33%
2023——
2024——
2025——

Each year describes that year’s tested students. Changes between years do not follow the same children over time. Cohort-growth evidence, when available, is labeled separately below.

Annual results and the full academic record
Is it getting better · CAASPP 2019 to 2025

Has stayed near the 14th percentile since 2019.

A missing score is not a judgment, and it is not a claim about what the state published. It means the composite a Scope Score, band and rank are all built from isn't on file for this school this year — the honest move is to say so, and to show whatever results are on file rather than guess at a number.

The pandemic drop is behind this school: 33% of students meet the standard today, above the 21% who did in 2019.

Percentile among 1,647 high schools statewide
Year detailsYear2019 · 8th percentile · Scope Score 36 of 1002022 · 14th percentile · Scope Score 39 of 100
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ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022
Grade 1136%33%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade2019202220232024
Grade 7——18%27%
Grade 117%33%——
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

Where its students land

ELA56% met or exceeded
Exceeded 19%Met 38%Nearly Met 25%Not Met 19%
Math24% met or exceeded
Exceeded 6%Met 18%Nearly Met 41%Not Met 35%
Exceeded Met Nearly Met Not Met
California high schools · average20% exceeded · 43% met or exceeded
California’s growth results and student groups
State growth model · CDE growth model 2024–25

California's own growth model places it near the 85th percentile of high schools.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

California runs its own growth model — it follows individual children in grades 4 through 8 and compares each one against a prediction from their own prior scores. On that measure this school sits well above the middle of California high schools in reading and math together. We show it; we don't score it.

— pts vs expected is scale-score points above or below what California's model predicted for these same children from their own prior-year scores. It is not a percentage and not a percent of anything. A typical California high school lands at −3 in reading, and the middle half of them fall between −13 and +5 — the spread is wide, so read the rank, not the sign. CDE blends two consecutive years into each published figure, so adjacent years share input data and no year-over-year trend can honestly be drawn from them. It covers grades 4-8 only, and it is not part of the Scope Score — we assessed it and left it out: it tracks school demographics roughly three times as strongly as our own growth measure does, and one published year is not enough to test how stable it is.

California's growth model, ranked against the schools it scores
State model · readingmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, reading: +13 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 86th percentile of 7,519 reported schools.86th pctile · +13 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: +14 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 84th percentile of 7,518 reported schools.84th pctile · +14 pts
this school| the tick is the middle of the California field

Students & opportunity

Who shares in the school’s results?

Where graduates go

What happens after high school?

50%

Enrolled in college within a year

Class of 2023 · 7 of 14 completers · includes community colleges

14Completers
14%
Other colleges2 completers · Outside the California community college system
36%
California community colleges5 completers · Enrolled within a year
50%
Not recorded enrolled7 completers · No college enrollment in this reporting window

Destination data describes this earlier graduating class, separately from current-year test results and graduation. Percentages are rounded.

College destinations and the full graduate record
2024–25

Where graduates go

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Where the class of 2023 went
50%enrolled in college within a year
  • California community college5 (36%)
  • Out-of-state, 4-year1 (7%)
  • Out-of-state, 2-year1 (7%)
  • Not enrolled7 (50%)

CDE 12-mo College-Going Rate, class of 2023 · % = count ÷ completers, our arithmetic

The daily experience

What is it like to be a student here?

Students per teacher

Student–teacher ratio is a schoolwide staffing measure, not an average class size.

The people teaching · CDE staffing 2024–25

About 7 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher7 · district 17
Teaching staff8 teachers
Avg. experience6.4 years
Fully credentialed70%
First-year teachers25%
PrincipalTeresa Ragsdale
ShowHide what the district pays
Teacher salary schedule$39,531 – $84,084
Superintendent salary$125,000

Pay is set by the district, not the school.

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

Explore school spending and the district budget
What gets spent · FY 2024–25

It spends $30,255 per student, more than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

$1,181 per student arrives as federal Title funding — a measure of concentrated need, not school quality.

The district's current expense of education per student, from CDE's annual SACS filing — the freshest district spending figure the state publishes.

Per-pupil spendingPer-pupil spending: $30,255, CA average $14,491$30,255 · spent at this school
Federal share$1,181 per student
District current expense · FY 2024–25$25,533 per student
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 45%Instruction support 20%Student services 8%Administration 11%Buildings & maintenance 15%Other 2%

District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.

ShowHide the district's spending year by year
district detail, 2016–2020 — the newest published
2020$20,983 per pupil
2019$24,360 per pupil
2018$20,402 per pupil
2017$17,741 per pupil
2016$17,735 per pupil
The neighborhood · ACS 2024

More than half of students here qualify for free or reduced lunch, versus three in five statewide.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Worth knowing

At 43 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California high school (≈1450).

On the state's science test (CAST), 64% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 and once in high school, and it never enters the Scope Score.

Hispanic or Latino30.2% · district 22.8% · CA 56.1%
White60.5% · district 70.2% · CA 19.9%
Other9.3% · district 7.0% · CA 9.0%
Free or reduced lunch55.8% · CA 64%
Median home value$156K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+27% · CA 35%
ZIP population307
Median age31 years

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level

Culture & philosophy

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School-stated approach · questions for your visit

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2025 · high schools · combined reading and math measures. Percentiles compare schools within their enrollment group.

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Elementary · K–5

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Behind the evidence

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How the Scope Score is calculated

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A closer look at the evidence

Big Valley Jr. Sr. High: reading the evidence

Big Valley Jr. Sr. is a high school in Bieber. We publish no Scope Score, band or rank for it this year — the composite they are all built from isn't on file. Here's what we can show.

Subject proficiency describes tested students, while graduation describes a graduating cohort. These figures are not successive stages followed by the same students.

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SchoolScope scores and verdicts are our interpretation of public California Department of Education data — independent analysis, not an official rating. How we analyze · Request a correction

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