Biggs Unified

The three schools in Biggs Unified serve 534 students from kindergarten through grade 12: Biggs Elementary serves K–8, Biggs High serves grades 9–12, and Richvale Charter Academy serves grades 1–6. In 2025–2026, the equal-school average was below the state in ELA by 6 percentage points, math by 5 points, and science by 15 points. The most important takeaway is that these averages conceal sharply different school results, especially in math, where scores span 41 points.

Biggs High led local schools in ELA, at 55%, and science, at 28%; those results were 9 and 8 points above the next-highest local scores, respectively. Richvale was the clear math standout: 60%, 39 points above the next-highest local result and 22 points above the state. By contrast, Biggs Elementary had the lowest all-grades score in every subject—28% in ELA, 22% in math, and 15% in science. Biggs High’s 100% graduation rate and 0% dropout rate also compare favorably with statewide rates of 88% and 8%.

Recent results show different subject-by-subject trends, not one shared direction: the three-school average in math rose 5 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while the ELA average fell 3 points. Biggs High gained 9 points in math and 10 in science; Biggs Elementary gained 5 in math but fell 5 in ELA. Matched elementary grades also show that Richvale’s math lead is especially large, while the schools’ grade 5 ELA results are close. SchoolDigger rankings moved from the 20th to the 10th percentile for Biggs Elementary, with its rating dropping from one star to zero, while Biggs High rose from the 40th to the 49th percentile and stayed at two stars. For context, the schools’ reported free/reduced lunch eligible shares for 2024–2025 were 69% at Biggs Elementary, 64% at Biggs High, and 53% at Richvale; student-teacher ratios were 18.9, 12.3, and 18.0, respectively. These figures are context, not explanations of achievement; because the schools serve different grade spans, all-grades comparisons are not perfectly like-for-like.