Summary:
In Bear Valley Unified, the middle-school list has one school, Big Bear Middle, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 489 students. In 2025–2026, its science proficiency was 40%, above the state’s 36%, while its ELA result was 39% against 49% statewide and math was 26% against 38%. The main takeaway is a notably uneven subject profile: science is a relative strength, while math is the largest state-level shortfall.
Big Bear Middle is both the highest- and lowest-performing school in this list because it is the only school; that is not evidence it leads or trails other schools. Its science result was 4 percentage points above the state and 2 points above the district, while ELA was 11 points below the state and 5 below the district; math was 12 points below the state and 4 below the district. The sharpest grade-level gaps were in grade 6: ELA was 28%, 20 points below the state, and math was 19%, 19 points below. Grade 7 and 8 gaps were narrower, ranging from 3 to 7 points in ELA and 6 to 6 points in math.
Results moved in different directions over the two reported years: science rose 10 percentage points, and its gap with the state improved by 7 points; ELA fell 2 points as its gap widened by 2, while math fell 4 points and its gap widened by 5. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile was 44 in 2025–2026, down 5 points from 2023–2024 and 6 from 2024–2025; its reported rank was 1,504 of 2,703. The school had a 21:1 student–teacher ratio in 2024–2025, and 70% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026 was 26%, below the district’s 28% but above the state’s 18%.
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