Summary:
Zip code 93513 has four small schools serving grades K–12: Big Pine Elementary (K–8) and three high schools, including a continuation school and an independent-study school. Together, they enroll 189 students, with school enrollments ranging from 13 to 121. The strongest consistent warning across the area is chronic absenteeism: all four schools’ rates are well above the state’s 18% rate, ranging from 45% at Big Pine Elementary to 94% at Bishop Independent Study.
Big Pine Elementary stands out in the reported all-grades results, with 33% proficiency in ELA and 36% in math in 2025–2026. Those rates are 1 point and 3 points above Big Pine Unified, respectively, but 16 points below the state in ELA and 3 points below in math; its science rate is 23%, 13 points below the state. At the low end of reported high-school results, Palisade Glacier High (Continuation) recorded 0% in all-grades ELA and math, and its 11th-grade rates were 57 points below the state in ELA and 32 points below in math.
Big Pine Elementary’s results improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA rose by 9 percentage points, math by 4, and science by 4, while its gaps with the state narrowed in all three subjects. Results vary sharply by grade: grade 7 math was 16 points above the state, while grade 7 ELA was 27 points below. SchoolDigger ranked Big Pine Elementary at the 45th percentile with 2 stars, compared with Palisade Glacier High at the 1st percentile with 0 stars. For context, 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible rates were 53% at Big Pine Elementary and 68% at Palisade; student–teacher ratios ranged from 6.6 at Big Pine High to 72.2 at Bishop Independent Study. Several high-school subject results are unavailable, so the achievement figures do not support a complete ranking of all four schools.
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