Bitney Prep High: This school runs ahead of the state average. The bar itself is the harder conversation.
Bitney Prep posts 43% meeting the standard against 36% statewide — ahead of most, with real headroom above the bar.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Grad rate | College readiness | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 32 | 16% | 43% | 75.0% | 0.0% | 35.1% | 7.4% |
| CA average · High School | 44 | 16% | 36% | 87.6% | 35.4% | 30.2% | 3.6% |
Bitney Prep High scores 32 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 26th percentile of 2,160 California high schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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🌱 Building Momentum — This label means the data doesn't clearly sort the school one way or the other — ask what the school is proud of, and what it's working on.
Most rating sites would stop at “43% proficient” and call it done. Bitney Prep deserves a closer read. The school sits in Grass Valley, where more than half of students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Bitney Prep's low-income kids hit 71.4% proficiency in ELA — a number the same group reaches at 38.2% statewide. If you're trying to read past zip-code-driven test scores, that's the signal worth weighing.
As a charter, Bitney Prep enrolls by application rather than address. That changes how you get in, but it doesn't change the score.
The seven-year arc
Has stayed near the 26th percentile since 2019.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 43% of students meet the standard today, above the 38% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 57% | 39% | 58% | 62% | 64% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 19% | 11% | 11% | 29% | 22% |
The story this school is actually telling
Of 100 students here: 43 are proficient by 11th grade → 75 graduate → 0 pass an AP exam. The gaps between those bars are the questions to ask.
The 6 things our score weighs
Ask how the school challenges kids who clear the standard early. The gap between meeting and exceeding is where pacing shows.
- Ask what typically leads to a suspension, and what happens before it gets there.
- Ask what share of students complete the full college-prep course sequence, and who gets steered into it.
- 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 Bitney Prep High in Grass Valley, 71.4% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 30.8% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Bitney Prep High outperforms its district average for low-income students by 40.7 percentage points in ELA. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 15 students tested.
6 of 8 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
Showing up, and staying in class
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
Estimated path based on proximity within the same district. Contact your school district for official feeder information.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
$444 per student arrives as federal Title funding — a measure of concentrated need, not school quality.
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
At 91 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California high school (≈1450).
On the state's science test (CAST), 47% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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Your other options
Nearby High Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 57
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 35
Nearby Middle Schools
2 within ~3 mi · avg 39
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
A low score doesn't tell the whole story. Read: Your School Scored Low — Here's What That Actually Means
Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 22 | 32% | 32% | 18% | 18% | 64% | +16 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 23 | 0% | 22% | 26% | 52% | 22% | −2 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 17 | 6% | 41% | 47% | 6% |
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 | 15 | 71.4% | +41 | +33 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bitney Prep High ← | — | 32 | 15.9% | 42.7% | — | 7.4% |
| William & Marian Ghidotti High | 0.5 mi | 70 | 79.2% | 94.5% | — | 1.1% |
| Nevada Union High | 0.9 mi | 53 | 24.5% | 46.1% | — | 3.9% |
| North Point Academy | 1 mi | 47 | 17.7% | 38.7% | — | 1.9% |
| California average | — | 44 | 15.8% | 35.7% | — | 3.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 35 | 31 | #1413 | 21.4% | 38.1% | 30.9% | 5.6% | — |
| 2022 | 27 | 19 | #1701 | 8.3% | 25.0% | 46.9% | 3.8% | — |
| 2023 | 30 | 25 | #1623 | 15.8% | 34.2% | 46.6% | 6.7% | — |
| 2024 | 31 | 25 | #1601 | 9.5% | 45.2% | 40.0% | 4.5% | — |
| 2025 | 32 | 26 | #1595 | 15.9% | 42.7% | 35.1% | 7.4% | — |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 28.8% | 35.9% | +7.1pp |
| Male | 38.5% | 39.2% | +0.7pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 40.0% | 28.6% | -11.4pp |
| Two or More Races | 27.3% | — | — |
| Students with Disabilities | 43.8% | 41.2% | -2.6pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 39.1% | 39.0% | -0.1pp |
| All Students | 34.2% | 37.4% | +3.2pp |
| Filipino | — | 40.0% | — |
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