Grizzly Hill

Grizzly Hill is an elementary school of micro-enrollment scale in Nevada City, California, overseen by Twin Ridges Elementary, serveing 105 students in grades K through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Grizzly Hill sits 77% smaller than that benchmark.

Grizzly Hill is a school of Twin Ridges Elementary, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

In terms of who attends, Grizzly Hill shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (80%). Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Nevada County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Grizzly Hill falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 29.0%; this one comes in at 12.2%, -16.8 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Nevada County put median household income runs about $89,882, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Grizzly Hill is one of 46 public schools in Nevada County (combined enrollment of about 13,561 students).

Nearest neighbor: Camptonville Elementary, around 6.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Grizzly Hill ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 42.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Grizzly Hill has climbed 19%, going from 88 students in 2018 to 105 in 2025. The White share of enrollment climbed from 68% to 80% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 21.0:1 in 2025.

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