Bijou Community: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
Bijou Community posts 36% meeting the standard and 13.6% exceeding it, against 43% and 21.3% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 47 | 14% | 36% | -0.0 | 12.4% | 1.0% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Bijou Community scores 47 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 62nd percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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🤝 Culture First — Ask whether the low absenteeism and suspension numbers come from what the school does or from the community it serves — both can produce the same numbers, and only a visit tells you which.
Most rating sites would stop at “36% proficient” and call it done. Bijou Community deserves a closer read. The school sits in South Lake Tahoe, where more than half of students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 44th to the 62nd percentile since 2019 — past roughly 900 elementary schools.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 36% of students meet the standard today, above the 29% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 32% | 33% | 25% | 36% | 39% |
| Grade 4 | 25% | 32% | 48% | 48% | 47% |
| Grade 5 | 40% | 36% | 47% | 59% | 48% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 32% | 25% | 24% | 17% | 35% |
| Grade 4 | 19% | 28% | 29% | 26% | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 25% | 11% | 20% | 29% | 26% |
The story this school is actually telling
The school, grade by grade
ELA · CAASPP 2024–25Different students, same year — each bar is one grade's proficiency mix.
The honest read: the share exceeding rises 6.0pp across grades; the floor rises 9.0pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. Kids here gain ground the longer they stay — the pattern you want to see. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
The 6 things our score weighs
Ask what the school is working on next. Strong numbers tell you where a school is, not where it's going.
- Ask whether the tour can step into a working classroom — watch how the teacher handles a student who's stuck.
- Ask to tour while school's in session, and notice how hallways and transitions feel — culture shows up between classes, not just in them.
- Ask how the school communicates with families when a child starts to struggle.
- Ask what a typical day looks like for a new student in the first few weeks.
How every group of students does here
At Bijou Community in South Lake Tahoe, 28.7% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 34.1% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Bijou Community trails its district average for low-income students by 5.4 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (20.4% Math proficient); Hispanic students (29.3% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 35.0 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 108 students tested.
Change in proficiency from the lowest tested grade — which groups gain ground the longer they stay. Groups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.
Low-income student ELA proficiency rises by 8.8pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: -4.8pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
Feeder patterns derived from NCES attendance boundary data. Boundaries are approximate and may have changed — verify with your school district for current assignments.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
$751 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.
District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.
Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →
The neighborhood it serves
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level
Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.
On the state's science test (CAST), 35% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 66 | 18% | 21% | 44% | 17% | 39% | −4 |
| Grade 4 | 58 | 14% | 33% | 24% | 29% | 47% | +2 |
| Grade 5 | 62 | 24% | 24% | 31% | 21% | 48% | +1 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 66 | 14% | 21% | 27% | 38% | 35% | −11 |
| Grade 4 | 58 | 3% | 16% | 48% | 33% | 19% | −23 |
| Grade 5 | 62 | 8% | 18% | 27% | 47% | 26% | −9 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 62 | 11% | 24% | 55% | 10% |
CAST is tested in grades 5, 8, and once in high school — not annually. Not part of the Scope Score.
| Subgroup · ELA | Tested | MET+ | vs district | vs CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 108 | 28.7% | −5 | −10 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 116 | 29.3% | −1 | −10 |
| White | 63 | 73.0% | +13 | +11 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bijou Community ← | — | 47 | 13.6% | 35.7% | −0.0 | 1.0% |
| Sierra House Elementary | 2.3 mi | 41 | 21.7% | 49.1% | −8.1 | 2.5% |
| Elevated Digital Learning Academy | 0.8 mi | 28 | 3.6% | 21.4% | — | 2.4% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 40 | 44 | #3085 | 13.0% | 28.9% | 11.0% | 1.3% | +0.6pp |
| 2022 | 31 | 38 | #3558 | 10.3% | 27.7% | 23.1% | 0.5% | -5.8pp |
| 2023 | 40 | 53 | #2689 | 10.3% | 32.2% | 25.6% | 3.4% | +9.4pp |
| 2024 | 50 | 68 | #1849 | 12.6% | 35.8% | 15.1% | 1.6% | +17.6pp |
| 2025 | 47 | 62 | #2167 | 13.6% | 35.7% | 12.4% | 1.0% | -0.0pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 9.3% | 10.8% | +1.5pp |
| Male | 12.8% | 13.2% | +0.4pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 13.4% | 15.8% | +2.4pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 14.3% | 13.0% | -1.3pp |
| English Learners | 13.1% | 16.1% | +3.0pp |
| Homeless | 29.4% | — | — |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 13.5% | 17.0% | +3.5pp |
| All Students | 11.0% | 12.0% | +1.0pp |
| Two or More Races | — | 7.1% | — |
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