Summary:
Fall River Mills, California, has one listed school, Fall River Elementary, serving grades K–6 and enrolling 275 students. In 2025–2026, its all-grades results were below California in English language arts (45% versus 49%) and math (35% versus 38%), but above the state in science (41% versus 36%). The clearest strength is science: the school led the state by 5 percentage points, and that advantage grew from the prior year.
As the only listed school, Fall River Elementary is the local leader and trailing school by default; there is no meaningful school-to-school comparison. Within its reported grade results, the strongest state-relative showings were grade 5 science, 5 points above the state; grade 5 ELA, also 5 points above; and grade 3 math, 5 points above. Grade 6 math was the weakest comparison, 11 points below California. The school was above Fall River Joint Unified in all three subjects—by 6 points in ELA, 7 in math, and 7 in science—even though it trailed the state in ELA and math.
Results changed unevenly over time: science rose 6 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, compared with a 3-point state increase, while ELA fell 4 points and its state-relative position shifted from 1 point above to 4 points below. Math was essentially unchanged, and its state gap widened to 3 points below. SchoolDigger gives the school 3 stars and ranks it 2,711th of 5,804 California schools (53rd percentile); its rank improved from 3,284th in 2023–2024 but slipped from 2,567th in 2024–2025. Context measures include a student–teacher ratio of 18.4 in 2024–2025 and 54% of students free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; California provides free school meals statewide. Chronic absenteeism was 28%, compared with 32% districtwide and 18% statewide.
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