Although there are many factors associated with being the victim of bullying in school, quantitative studies have not treated academic attitudes, effort, and achievement (or lack thereof) as risk factors. This is true despite many ethnographic accounts of good students being stigmatized and directly bullied on account of their status as good students. With that research gap in mind, data from a nationally representative cohort of US high school sophomores were analyzed to examine the contexts in which students were bullied because of their academic orientations. The results show that being a male student with a high GPA and being a male student who spends more time on homework increases one's risk of bullying victimization. Further, in low-income schools, bullying victimization tends to be physical.