Mojave River Academy - Silver Mountain

Mojave River Academy - Silver Mountain is an alternative K–12 school in Barstow, serving 677 students in the surrounding high-desert area. In 2025–26, all-grades proficiency was 18% in English language arts (ELA), 3% in math and 8% in science—below California’s rates in all three subjects. The most important finding is the math result: proficiency was 36 percentage points below the state and 16 points below the nearby-school average.

Compared with Independence Charter Academy and Silver Valley Academy, the school had the lowest all-grades proficiency in ELA and math, and was between them in science. ELA was its closest subject to the nearby average: 18% versus 27%; science was 8% versus 23%, while math was 3% versus 19%. Attendance stands out positively: chronic absenteeism was 7%, compared with 18% statewide and 47% and 61% at the nearby schools. The comparison is limited to these two nearby schools, and comparable test results for the Mojave River Academy - Silver Mountain District were not supplied.

Over the four years from 2022–23 to 2025–26, ELA proficiency rose from 15% to 18%, and its gap with the state remained about 31 points. Math rose from under 1% to 3%, but its state gap widened by 1 point; science rose from 6% to 8% overall, despite falling from a 10% peak, and its state gap widened by 4 points. As context, the 2024–25 student-teacher ratio was 25.1, close to Independence’s 25.9 and above Silver Valley’s 13.9. In 2024–25, 85% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible. SchoolDigger rank and star-rating information for this school was not provided, so its relative standing on those measures is unknown.