Best High Schools in Zip Code 93513

Three high schools in ZIP code 93513 serve grades 9–12 and enroll 68 students in total: Big Pine High has 30, Palisade Glacier High (Continuation) has 25, and Bishop Independent Study has 13. These are small schools with different formats, so families may want to weigh attendance and staffing alongside achievement figures. The central concern is that Palisade’s four reported proficiency results are all 0%, while chronic absenteeism is high at every school.

Big Pine stands out for the lowest chronic absenteeism, at 45%, compared with 85% at Palisade Glacier and 94% at Bishop Independent Study; all three rates are well above the state’s 18%. Palisade is the only school with reported proficiency results: its all-grades ELA and math and 11th-grade ELA and math are each 0%. Those results trail state figures by 49, 38, 57, and 32 percentage points, respectively. The other schools do not have comparable reported school-level proficiency results, so the data cannot establish which has higher achievement.

SchoolDigger ranks Palisade 2,115th of 2,137 for 2025–26, in the 1st percentile with zero stars; its percentile rank moved from 1st in 2020–21 to 24th in 2021–22 and back to 1st in 2025–26. Big Pine had a listed SchoolDigger percentile increase from 11th to 16th between 2012–13 and 2015–16, while Bishop Independent Study was at the 9th percentile in its listed years. Staffing also differs sharply: the student-teacher ratio is 6.6 at Big Pine, 8.2 at Palisade, and 72.2 at Bishop Independent Study. In 2024–25, free/reduced lunch eligible figures were 53% at Big Pine, 68% at Palisade, and 69% at Bishop Independent Study; these are contextual measures, not explanations for school outcomes.