Bishop Elementary

Set in Bishop, California, Bishop Elementary is a substantial elementary campus, overseen by Bishop Unified. It educates 832 students across grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 79% above the state mean of about 465.

Bishop Unified runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 1,910 students. Bishop Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Bishop Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 44%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 29% White, 14% Native American, 12% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Bishop Elementary has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Bishop Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 71% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Inyo County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Bishop Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.3%, the actual is 36.9%, a residual of -0.3 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Inyo County) records that the typical household earns roughly $73,991 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Bishop Elementary is one of 23 public schools in Inyo County (combined enrollment of about 2,539 students).

CDS Bishop Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Bishop Elementary. On composite proficiency, Bishop Elementary comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 47.0%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 94%: 428 students in 2018 compared to 832 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 39% to 29% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 27.6:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Bishop Elementary community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.