Biggs Elementary

Set in Biggs, California, Biggs Elementary is a tight-knit elementary campus, run under Biggs Unified. It serves 320 students across grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 31% smaller than typical.

Across the 3 schools in Biggs Unified (534 students total), Biggs Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Biggs Elementary shows that 51% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 44% Hispanic, 2% Asian. By comparison, Butte County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Biggs Elementary logs 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 69% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Biggs Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 38.5%; Biggs Elementary posts 18.3%, -20.2 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Butte County) records that median household income runs about $67,928, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Butte County's 96 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,730 students), Biggs Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Biggs High, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Biggs Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Biggs Elementary at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 45.6%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 14%: 373 students in 2018 compared to 320 in 2025.

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