Summary:
Bijou Community is an elementary school located in South Lake Tahoe, California, serving grades K-5 with a total enrollment of 420 students. The school faces several challenges, including lower academic performance, high chronic absenteeism, and a higher proportion of students from low-socioeconomic backgrounds compared to nearby schools.
Bijou Community's academic performance, as measured by Smarter Balanced Assessments, is generally lower than the Lake Tahoe Unified School District and state averages across various grade levels and subject areas. For example, in the 2023-2024 school year, only 47.43% of Bijou Community students were proficient or better in English Language Arts/Literacy, compared to 45.55% for the district and 47.04% for the state. In Mathematics, Bijou Community's proficiency rate was 23.73%, significantly lower than the district's 33.94% and the state's 35.54%. The school's performance in Science, however, was slightly better, with 41.07% of students proficient or better, compared to 29.48% for the district and 30.7% for the state.
Bijou Community has also experienced high rates of chronic absenteeism, with 25.6% of students chronically absent in the 2022-2023 school year, compared to the district's 21.2% and 44.4% at the nearby Tahoe Valley Elementary. Additionally, the school has a relatively high percentage of students from low-socioeconomic backgrounds, with 50.24% of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch in the 2022-2023 school year. Compared to other schools in the area, such as Meyers Elementary, which consistently outperforms Bijou Community, and Tahoe Lake Elementary, which outperforms Bijou Community in both academic achievement and student attendance, Bijou Community faces significant challenges in improving student outcomes.
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Detail:
Public K-5
District:
Lake Tahoe Unified
SchoolDigger Rank:
2862nd of 5,862 California Elementary Schools
Per Pupil Expenditures: $12,055
Students who attend Bijou Community usually attend:
Student/teacher ratio: 23.6
Number of students: 425
Racial breakdown:
Hispanic:
66.4%
White:
29.4%
Two or more races:
2.8%
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Asian:
1.2%
African American:
0.2%
Free/discounted lunch recipients: 56.5%
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