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Grizzly Hill

Nevada City, CA · Grades TK-8 · 105 students · Twin Ridges Elementary

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25% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 6% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

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DistrictTwin Ridges Elementary
PrincipalErik Crawford
GradesTK-8
Enrollment105 students

Math

6%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

English

25%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

105

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

32%

Students absent 10% or more of school days

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Academic performance

What do the results tell us?

2025 results · Grades 3 & 5 · 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: 42%2023: 13%2024: 8%2025: 6%2019: 50%2022: 36%2023: 4%2024: 18%2025: 25%201920222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2019: 42%2023: 13%2024: 8%2025: 6%2019: 50%2022: 36%2023: 4%2024: 18%2025: 25%20192022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
201942%50%
2022—36%
202313%4%
20248%18%
20256%25%

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

Slipped from the 37th to the 7th percentile since 2019.

Most rating sites would stop at “16% proficient” and call it done. Grizzly Hill deserves a closer read. Four in five of its students qualify for free or reduced lunch (California: 64%) — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.

Test scores are one lens, and at this school they're a rough one right now. The sections below show the fuller picture — including the parts that are working.

57 tested · 1 of 3 grades published · no cohort tracked

Grizzly Hill scores 18 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 7th percentile of 5,721 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).

This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 16% meet the standard today, versus 46% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.

Percentile among 5,721 elementary schools statewide
Year detailsYear2019 · 37th percentile · Scope Score 31 of 1002022 · 5th percentile · Scope Score 14 of 1002023 · 4th percentile · Scope Score 14 of 1002024 · 4th percentile · Scope Score 17 of 1002025 · 7th percentile · Scope Score 18 of 100
ELARed(Maintained)MathRed(Declined)
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ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 350%36%8%18%—
Grade 4—0%9%21%—
Grade 5——0%—25%
Grade 736%40%———
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 342%—25%8%—
Grade 4—0%18%21%—
Grade 5——0%—6%
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

One in ten of students here meet the standard. 6% clear it by a lot.

ELA21% met or exceeded
Exceeded 7%Met 14%Nearly Met 23%Not Met 56%
Math5% met or exceeded
Exceeded 0%Met 5%Nearly Met 25%Not Met 70%
Exceeded Met Nearly Met Not Met
California elementary schools · average21% exceeded · 43% met or exceeded
This school against the California average
2019–2025 trend · CDE CAASPP
Scope% Exceeded% Met+GrowthAbsenceSuspension
This school186%16%—31.9%3.5%
CA average · Elementary School3921%43%—17.9%1.6%
This schoolCA avg
Scope1839
% Exceeded6%21%
% Met+16%43%
Growth——
Absence31.9%17.9%
Suspension3.5%1.6%
California’s growth results and student groups
State growth model · CDE growth model 2024–25

California's own growth model places it near the 12th percentile of elementary 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 below the middle of California elementary 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 elementary school lands at +2 in reading, and the middle half of them fall between −5 and +9 — 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: −12 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 13th percentile of 7,519 reported schools.13th pctile · −12 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: −16 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 10th percentile of 7,518 reported schools.10th pctile · −16 pts
this school| the tick is the middle of the California field

Students & opportunity

Who shares in the school’s results?

Who it works for · CAASPP 2024–25

How every group of students does here

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 16% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 16%, district —, state 43%16%
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 12%, district 12%, state 32%12% · −4 vs school
WhiteWhite: this school 19%, district 19%, state 56%19% · +4 vs school

7 of 10 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.

this school district, same group California, same group
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Student-group results by grade

Results compare different grade groups in the same year, relative to the lowest tested grade. They do not track the same children over time. Groups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.

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The state's growth model, by student group

California follows these children individually and predicts each one's score from their own prior year. Each row is read against the same group at a typical California elementary school — not against zero, and not against this school's all-students figure, because the state's expectation already differs by group.

Reading
English Only45 studentsEnglish Only, reading: −13 scale-score points versus expectation, against +3 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 45 students.−13 pts · −16 vs typical
Low-income students35 studentsLow-income students, reading: −14 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 35 students.−14 pts · −14 vs typical
White34 studentsWhite, reading: −10 scale-score points versus expectation, against +5 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 34 students.−10 pts · −15 vs typical
Math
English Only45 studentsEnglish Only, math: −16 scale-score points versus expectation, against +1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 45 students.−16 pts · −17 vs typical
Low-income students35 studentsLow-income students, math: −22 scale-score points versus expectation, against −1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 35 students.−22 pts · −21 vs typical
White34 studentsWhite, math: −16 scale-score points versus expectation, against +5 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 34 students.−16 pts · −21 vs typical
this school typical California elementary school, same group| the centre tick is 0 = as predicted

— 1 more group is reported here with between 11 and 29 students. We hold those back on purpose: at that size the figure swings about 17 points on its own, and a quarter of such groups land past the state's top or bottom cut point by chance alone. They are listed with their student counts in the data appendix. — A group not listed at all had fewer than 11 students with a growth score, so California published nothing for it here. That is a privacy protection, not a judgment about those students. — Context only. None of this enters the Scope Score.

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 21 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher21 · district 21
Teaching staff6 teachers
Avg. experience6.8 years
Fully credentialed80%
First-year teachers33%
PrincipalErik Crawford
Attendance & discipline · 2024–25

Kids here miss more school, and get suspended more, than the state average.

Grades 7–8 students miss school at roughly one and a half times the rate of Grades 4–6 students (61.9% vs 38.5%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the upper grades.

31.9% of students miss a month or more of school, versus 17.9% statewide. High absence often tracks community stress — a school visit will tell you more than this number.

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 31.9%, district 31.9%, state 17.9%31.9% · +14.0pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 3.5%, district —, state 1.6%3.5% · +1.9pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
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Chronic absenteeism by grade band
Grades 4–638.5%
Grades 7–861.9%
TK/K38.5%

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

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What gets spent · FY 2024–25

It spends $23,141 per student, more than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

These measure different things: this figure is spending attributed to this campus, while district-wide figures also include central administration, districtwide programs, and the state's pension contributions made on the district's behalf — costs that never get assigned to a single school. The district number runs higher at nearly every school, not just this one.

$5,335 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: $23,141, CA average $14,491$23,141 · spent at this school
Federal share$5,335 per student
District current expense · FY 2024–25$28,382 per student
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 40%Instruction support 21%Student services 8%Administration 18%Buildings & maintenance 13%Other 1%

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$23,329 per pupil
2019$21,525 per pupil
2018$19,969 per pupil
2017$18,845 per pupil
2016$18,863 per pupil
The neighborhood · ACS 2024

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

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Worth knowing

At 105 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California elementary school (≈480).

Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.

On the state's science test (CAST), 9% 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 Latino8.6% · district 8.6% · CA 56.1%
White80.0% · district 80.0% · CA 19.9%
Other11.4% · district 11.4% · CA 9.0%
Free or reduced lunch84.8% · CA 64%
Median income$87K · CA $85K
Median home value$627K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+47% · CA 35%
ZIP population17,683
Median age56 years

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

Culture & philosophy

What is the school’s approach?

School-stated approach · questions for your visit

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A source-reviewed culture summary is not available for this profile yet. Ask how teaching, student support and family communication work day to day.

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Family voices

What would you want another family to know about the daily experience here?

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

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Worth a school visit

Ask what changed in the last two years, and what the school is asking families for. Growth shows up in these numbers a year or two after it shows up in classrooms.

  • Ask how the school follows up when a student starts missing days — chronic absence often starts outside the classroom, not inside it.
  • Ask what typically leads to a suspension, and what happens before it gets there.
  • 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.
Questions

Frequently asked questions

Is Grizzly Hill a good elementary school?
Grizzly Hill has a Scope Score of 18 out of 100, placing it in the 7th percentile of California elementary schools and ranked #5,332 statewide. 6.3% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 15.1 percentage points below the California average of 21.4%. The Scope Score weights 6 dimensions for elementary schools: exceeded standard (42%), met or exceeded (proficient) (23%), grade 3-to-5 growth (20%), chronic absenteeism (5%), suspension rate (5%), and ELPAC English Learner proficiency (5%). Data source: California Department of Education CAASPP 2025, analyzed by SchoolScope.
What are Grizzly Hill's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 15.6% of students at Grizzly Hill met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 6.3% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 9.4% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 6.3% went beyond it. Most rating sites report only the combined "proficient" number. SchoolScope surfaces the exceeded-vs-met split because it shows how many students go beyond the standard rather than only meeting it. 32 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does Grizzly Hill rank in California?
Grizzly Hill ranks #5,332 among California elementary schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 7th percentile. This ranking is based on a weighted composite of 2025 CAASPP test performance (exceeded and met rates), grade-level growth (Grade 3 to grade 5 growth), chronic absenteeism, and suspension rate. Unlike single-number ratings, the Scope Score shows what drives the ranking so parents can decide what matters most to their family. See full methodology.
What is the attendance and school culture like at Grizzly Hill?
31.9% of students at Grizzly Hill are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), compared to the California average of 17.9%. The suspension rate is 3.5%. SchoolScope includes these culture metrics in the Scope Score because they reflect day-to-day school experience in ways test scores alone cannot.
How does Grizzly Hill compare to other schools in Nevada City?
Grizzly Hill scores 18/100 (7th percentile) among California elementary schools. To compare with nearby schools, SchoolScope shows the same metrics side by side: exceeded rate, proficiency, growth trajectory, and school culture indicators. The school serves 105 students. Use the schools in Nevada City page or the map view to compare all elementary schools nearby.

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Behind the evidence

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Public sources, visible methods and the underlying school record. Source years and limitations stay attached to the evidence.

How the Scope Score is calculated

On a narrow screen, scroll the table sideways to see the state comparison and weights.

What the score weighs · CAASPP 2024–25

The 4 things our score weighs

What the score weighs
What we weighHereStateWeight
Exceeded standard6.3%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded15.6%42.7%23%
Chronic absenteeism31.9%17.9%5%
Suspension rate3.5%1.6%5%

Source CAASPP 2025 · California Department of Education. Measures test performance, attendance, and climate — not arts, community, or your kid. How the score is built

A closer look at the evidence

Grizzly Hill: reading the evidence

Grizzly Hill posts low test scores — and test scores are one lens among several. If this is your zoned school, the numbers below are where to start a conversation, not where to end one.

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

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.

Explore the underlying data →
Every number: score factors, grades, student groups and downloads
Every number · For the data nerds

Every number on this page

Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and nearest schools.

Grizzly Hill is ranked #5,332 statewide.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Score factors
FactorSchoolStateWeight
Exceeded standard6.3%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded15.6%42.7%23%
Chronic absenteeism31.9%17.9%5%
Suspension rate3.5%1.6%5%
Exceeded standard
↓ vs CA 21.4% · index 37 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Met or exceeded
↓ vs CA 42.7% · index 32 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Chronic absenteeism
↓ vs CA 17.9% · index 27 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▼ 18.1pp lower vs 2024
Suspension rate
↓ vs CA 1.6% · index 35 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▲ 2.9pp higher vs 2024
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
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ELATestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 37——————
Grade 48——————
Grade 51613%13%38%38%25%−23
Grade 610——————
Grade 710——————
Grade 86——————
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 37——————
Grade 48——————
Grade 5160%6%25%69%6%−29
Grade 610——————
Grade 710——————
Grade 86——————

We show the grade rows CDE publishes for this school. A missing grade or dash can mean the school does not serve that grade, that we hold no valid result for it, or that the tested group was too small to report. It does not mean zero.

Science (CAST)TestedEXCMETNEARNOT
Schoolwide220%9%45%45%

CAST is tested in grades 5 and 8, then once in grade 10, 11, or 12. This row is the school's all-student aggregate. Not part of the Scope Score.

03Nearest elementary schoolssorted by Scope Score · Grade gap = grade 3 vs grade 5, this year, different students; Cohort growth = one school's returning cohort tracked across grades (mostly, not exactly, the same kids), in scale-score points — that's the measurement the Scope Score weights
SchoolDistScopeEXCMET+Grade gapCohort growthSusp
Grizzly Hill ←—186.3%15.6%——3.5%
California average—3921.4%42.7%−2.9pp—1.6%
04More measurescontext · not all part of the Scope Score
ShowHide table 04 — More measures
YearScopePctileRankExcMet+AbsentSuspGrade gap
20193137#342912.5%45.8%23.0%2.9%—
2022145#54453.0%12.1%56.7%3.8%—
2023144#54823.0%10.1%58.4%0.5%-16.7pp
2024174#54762.1%17.3%50.0%0.6%—
2025187#53326.3%15.6%31.9%3.5%—
Grade gap = this year's grade 3 vs grade 5 result, two different sets of students, not a trend for any one child — it is not the measurement the Scope Score's growth dimension uses. See §01 above and /methodology#verdicts for the school's actual scored (cohort) growth.
NO STATEWIDE TESTING 2020–21 (COVID) · SCORE AND PERCENTILE ARE RELATIVE TO EACH YEAR'S FIELD
What we can't show
  • — Growth data isn't available — the state needs matched grades across years to compute it.
  • — No subgroup comparison could be shown for this school this year — either its group sizes fall under CDE's 15-student reporting floor, or district/state comparison data wasn't available for its groups.
  • — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
05Climate by student groupchronic absenteeism · 2019 vs 2025 — the two years CDE publishes at subgroup level
ShowHide table 05 — Climate by student group
Group20192025Δ
Female29.5%40.0%+10.5pp
Male44.8%48.4%+3.6pp
Two or More Races60.0%——
White33.8%41.0%+7.2pp
Students with Disabilities31.8%44.4%+12.6pp
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged36.6%44.4%+7.8pp
All Students38.2%44.9%+6.7pp
Hispanic/Latino—54.5%—
06California growth model, by student group2025 · scale-score points vs the state's prediction · shown, never scored
ShowHide table 06 — California growth model, by student group
GroupReadingnCDE bandMathnCDE band
All Students−1247Moderate−1647Moderate
English Only−1345not categorised−1645not categorised
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged−1435Moderate−2235Minimal
White−1034Moderate−1634Moderate
Students with Disabilities+414Average−914Moderate

Whole scale-score points above or below what CDE's model predicted for these same children from their own prior-year scores — not a percentage, not a percentile. Statewide a typical school lands near +1 with a spread of about 13 points either side, so read a figure against its group's own typical value, not against zero. Muted rows have fewer than 30 students with a growth score — published by CDE, held back from the narrative sections above because at that size the figure swings about 17 points on its own. “Not categorised” is CDE assigning no band — English Only, Recently Reclassified, and English Learners Only receive a value and no band, for every school in the state. It is not a missing number. Most figures blend two consecutive years, so adjacent published years share input data and no trend line can honestly be drawn across them. A group absent from this table had fewer than 11 students with a growth score and was never published. Grades 4-8 only. None of this enters the Scope Score — it is more strongly correlated with school demographics than our own growth measure, and one published year is not enough to test its reliability.

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EXC = exceeded standard · MET+ = met or exceeded ("proficient") · Source: CA Dept. of Education · CAASPP 2024–25 · n=5,721 elementary schools · Vintages: climate subgroups 2019+2025 · district finance per its label · ACS 2022 · Data updated 2026-09-18

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