Summary
Abraham Lincoln Continuation is a 148-student public high school serving grades 9–12 in Riverside, California, and is part of Riverside Unified. Its 2025–26 test results are extremely low: 3% of students were proficient in both English language arts (ELA) and math, and 0% in science. The school also reports 99% chronic absenteeism—compared with 17% in the district and 18% statewide—and the figure rose 23 points from the previous year. This reported attendance rate is the most urgent concern.
Graduation is a brighter result, but proficiency is far below local and state benchmarks. In 2025–26, ELA proficiency was 3%, versus 49% statewide and 47% in the district; math was 3%, versus 38% statewide and 34% districtwide; science was 0%, versus 36% statewide and 32% districtwide. The same-grade comparison is similarly concerning: the school’s 11th-grade results were 3% in ELA, 3% in math, and 0% in science, while five nearby schools averaged 57%, 30%, and 36%, respectively. Graduation was 95%, above the state’s 88% but 2 points below the district’s 97%. The 4% dropout rate was 4 points below the state rate and 3 points above the district’s. The reported 99% chronic-absenteeism rate also far exceeds the 79% reported by nearby Raincross High (Continuation).
Results have varied over time, and the state gaps widened overall from 2022–23 to 2025–26: ELA fell from 10% to 3%, math rose from 0% to 3%, and science fell from 4% to 0%. SchoolDigger places the school in the 2nd percentile statewide, with 0 stars, ranking 2,091 of 2,137 California schools. Its 2024–25 student-teacher ratio was 12.2, below the 22.5 average among nearby schools with data. In 2024–25, 95% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible, the highest rate among the nearby schools listed; this describes eligibility, not access to meals. One notable subgroup finding is that SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking for how well the school serves English Language Learner Students fell from the 28th percentile in 2021–22 to the 13th percentile in 2023–24, though it remained above the school’s overall 1st-percentile ranking in 2023–24.
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