Summary:
The Big Springs Union Elementary district in rural Montague, California, operates a single K-8 school, Big Springs Elementary, serving 151 students.
This school faces significant academic challenges, with student proficiency rates in English, math, and science all well below state averages; notably, math proficiency is critically low at 8.9%, with some middle school grades showing no students proficient. A major concern is the high rate of chronic absenteeism, at 35.5%, which is nearly double the state average and closely linked to academic struggles. Despite these outcomes, the school's per-student spending is very high at nearly $27,000, though it also has a large student-teacher ratio of 28-to-1.
Academic performance has shown extreme volatility in recent years, with the school's statewide ranking plummeting from the 38th percentile to the 5th percentile in just two years, and there are stark inconsistencies in performance between different grade levels. For parents, this indicates a school in need of substantial improvement, particularly in mathematics instruction and student attendance, as it works to stabilize its educational delivery and better utilize its resources for all students.
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