Summary:
McArthur’s data cover three high-school options in Fall River Junior-Senior High (grades 7–12), Soldier Mountain High (Continuation) (grades 9–12), and Fall River Community Day (grades 7–12), all in Fall River Joint Unified. The clearest available test picture is for Fall River Junior-Senior High: its 2025–26 all-grades results were below California’s in ELA, math, and science, with math showing the largest shortfall at 18 percentage points.
Fall River Junior-Senior High stands out for its reported 100% graduation rate in 2025–26, compared with 88% statewide, and 0% dropout rate; its 32% chronic absenteeism is also a concern, 14 points above the state. Its all-grades results were 42% in ELA, 21% in math, and 31% in science, versus state rates of 49%, 38%, and 36%. There are grade-level bright spots: 11th-grade ELA was 65% versus 57% statewide, and 12th-grade science was 57% versus 33%. Only Fall River Junior-Senior High has numeric test results; Soldier Mountain’s results are state-suppressed, and no results are listed for Fall River Community Day, so the schools cannot be ranked against one another on test performance.
Results at Fall River Junior-Senior High shifted unevenly from 2024–25 to 2025–26: science rose 14 percentage points, math fell 1 point, and ELA was essentially unchanged. SchoolDigger places it at the 58th percentile with three stars for 2025–26, after the 59th percentile in 2023–24 and 48th in 2024–25. The three schools differ in size and reported context: enrollment is 226 at Fall River Junior-Senior High, 13 at Soldier Mountain, and 11 at Fall River Community Day; their student-teacher ratios are 14.9, 16.2, and 11. In 2024–25, each reported the same measure, free/reduced lunch eligible: 42%, 69%, and 73%, respectively. These are useful differences to consider, but they do not explain test results.
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