Summary
Fair View High (Continuation) is a 9–12 school in Chico, California, serving 95 students in Chico Unified. Its 2025–26 proficiency results were about 9% in ELA, 4% in math, and 8% in science, well below both district and state rates in every subject. The most important concern is that low proficiency is accompanied by weak completion and attendance indicators: the graduation rate was 67%, the dropout rate 31%, and chronic absenteeism 91%.
Compared with the state, Fair View’s largest proficiency gap is in ELA: its result was 41 percentage points lower, versus gaps of 34 points in math and 28 in science. It was also below the district by 46 points in ELA and 36 points in both math and science. Among the three nearby traditional high schools with reported results, average proficiency was 72% in ELA, 41% in math, and 52% in science, leaving Fair View behind by 63, 36, and 44 points, respectively. Science is its least weak subject against the state and district; math is least far behind the nearby-school average. Its graduation rate also trails the district’s 94% and state’s 88%, while its 31% dropout rate is far above their 5% and 8%. Because the school has 95 students and the supplied data report no test results by grade other than 11th, scores may be sensitive to the number tested and do not show how other grades performed.
Results have bounced back from 2024–25 lows, but Fair View has not kept pace with California: from 2022–23 to 2025–26, its ELA result fell from 11% to 9%, while math rose from 2% to 4% and science from 7% to 8%; over the same period, its gaps to the state widened in all three subjects. SchoolDigger raised the school’s standing from the 1st percentile in 2024–25 to the 10th percentile and 1 star in 2025–26, still below nearby ranked schools, including Pivot Charter School North Valley II at the 40th percentile and Chico High, Pleasant Valley High, and Durham High at the 81st to 85th percentiles. In 2024–25, 91% of Fair View students were free/reduced lunch eligible; this is context about students’ circumstances, not an explanation for results. SchoolDigger’s comparative measure placed Fair View at the 1st percentile for how well it served homeless students in 2021–22, versus the school’s overall 16th percentile; by 2024–25 both were at the 1st percentile. Its Hispanic students’ percentile rose from 2 in 2021–22 to 27 in 2023–24.
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