Summary:
The eight schools in Center Joint Unified include five elementary schools, one middle school and two high schools, with proficiency results for 2024–25 and 2025–26. The clearest overall picture is that the schools’ 2025–26 average proficiency was about 13 percentage points below the state in each subject: 36% versus 49% in ELA, 25% versus 38% in math, and 23% versus 36% in science. Results also varied widely from school to school.
Center High led in all-grades ELA at 62% and science at 34%; Rex Fortune Elementary led in math at 40%. At the other end, McClellan High (Continuation) had 7% in ELA and 0% in math, while North Country Elementary had the lowest science result, 13%. The highest-to-lowest gaps were 55 points in ELA, 40 in math and 22 in science. Rex Fortune also led the elementary schools in ELA and math, and its fifth-grade science result of 26% was the group’s highest. McClellan’s test results are weak, but its graduation rate was 89% and dropout rate 5%, compared with state rates of 88% and 8%.
ELA and math averages improved from 2024–25 to 2025–26 by about 1 and 2 percentage points, while science fell by about 2 points even as the state science result rose by 3. The declines were especially large at North Country (7 points) and Cyril Spinelli Elementary (11 points); Wilson C. Riles Middle and Arthur S. Dudley Elementary improved in science. SchoolDigger rated Center High four stars and placed it at the 74th percentile; Rex Fortune was at the 55th percentile, down from the 67th in 2023–24. Rex Fortune’s chronic absenteeism was 12%, below the state’s 18%, and its free/reduced lunch eligible share was 42% in sy 2024–25, lower than the other elementary schools. Because schools serve different grade spans, all-grades comparisons do not always match students at the same grade level.
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