Summary:
Fall River Joint Unified has six high schools serving grades 7–12 or 9–12, with 504 students; Burney Junior-Senior High and Fall River Junior-Senior High enroll 457 of them. The most important finding is that, among the two schools with reportable all-grade test results, both are below state averages in ELA, math, and science, with the largest shared gap in math.
The two larger schools lead in different subjects: Fall River is ahead in all-grade ELA, 42% to 36%, and science, 31% to 30%, while Burney leads in math, 28% to 21%. Their two-school averages are 39% in ELA, 24% in math, and 31% in science—10, 14, and 5 percentage points below state figures, respectively. Grade-level results add important exceptions: Fall River’s grade 11 ELA is 65%, 7 points above the state, and its grade 12 science is 57%, 24 points above; Burney leads in grade 7 ELA and math, grade 8 science, and grade 11 math. Mountain View High stands out for concerning reported outcomes: in 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 94%, and graduation and dropout rates were both 46%. The other four schools enroll 10–13 students each, and their 2025–2026 test scores are suppressed, so their academic results cannot be compared here.
Results moved in different directions: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, the two-school science average rose 9 percentage points, while math fell 6 points and ELA fell 2. Both larger schools had 100% graduation and 0% dropout in 2025–2026, but chronic absenteeism was about 32% at each, versus 18% statewide. SchoolDigger ranks Fall River higher—rank 890 of 2,137, 58th percentile and 3 stars—than Burney, rank 1,146, 46th percentile and 2 stars. In 2024–2025, both schools reported free/reduced lunch eligible measures: 42% at Fall River and 58% at Burney; their student-teacher ratios were similar at 14.9 and 15.1, respectively.
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