Bijou Community

Bijou Community, a mid-sized elementary school in South Lake Tahoe, California, operated by Lake Tahoe Unified, hosts 422 students, covering grades K through 5.

Within Lake Tahoe Unified, which oversees 8 schools and 3,527 students, Bijou Community is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Bijou Community shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 65% of enrollment; the rest looks like 30% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, El Dorado County as a whole is about 15% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Bijou Community reports 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 59% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of El Dorado County's rate of about 32%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bijou Community sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.4%; this one delivers 35.7%.

In the surrounding community, El Dorado County reports that median household earnings sit near $108,845, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, El Dorado County runs 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,706 students), of which Bijou Community is one.

Nearest neighbor: Elevated Digital Learning Academy, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bijou Community ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 39.4%.

Bijou Community operates from a town-center location.

Looking at the recent track record. Bijou Community's enrollment has shrank 30% since 2018, when it stood at 602 (now 422). White enrollment moved from 25% to 30% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 20.8:1 in 2018 to 23.4:1 in 2025.

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