Summary:
Point Arena, California, has two high schools serving grades 9–12: Point Arena High enrolls 131 students and South Coast Continuation enrolls 8, for 139 students across the area. The clearest academic concern at the school with reportable scores is that math and science are far below state results, while ELA is close.
Point Arena High stands out for strong completion outcomes: its 2025–2026 graduation rate was 100%, compared with 88% statewide, and its dropout rate was 0%, compared with 8% statewide. Its test results are mixed: ELA proficiency was 46%, just 3 points below the state’s 49%, while math was 3% versus 38% statewide and science was 3% versus 36%. A school-to-school academic ranking is not possible: South Coast Continuation’s only supplied 2025–2026 test result, science, is suppressed, and no school ELA or math score is supplied.
At Point Arena High, ELA improved from 9% in 2024–2025 to 46% in 2025–2026, while math remained about 3% and science fell from 21% to 3%. SchoolDigger gives Point Arena 1 star and a 23rd-percentile rank for 2025–2026; its two prior listed years were also 1 star, at the 22nd and 24th percentiles. South Coast Continuation is much smaller and has a lower reported student-teacher ratio: 8 students and a ratio of 7.8, compared with Point Arena’s 131 students and 10.4 ratio. As context, Point Arena reported 48% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025, while South Coast reported 67% in 2023–2024; the figures are from different school years.
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