Summary:
ZIP code 91722 has two high schools, both serving grades 9–12 in Covina-Valley Unified: comprehensive Northview High and continuation school Fairvalley High (Continuation). They differ in size, with 1,247 students at Northview and 115 at Fairvalley. The most important finding is a substantial academic divide between the schools, while neither reaches the state proficiency rate in English, math, or science.
Northview leads in all three subjects, and Fairvalley has the lower scores. In 2025–2026, Northview scored 45% in English, 18% in math, and 22% in science, compared with Fairvalley’s 3%, 0%, and 0%—gaps of 42, 18, and 22 percentage points. Northview was also below state rates by 4 points in English, 20 in math, and 14 in science. Attendance presents another sharp contrast: chronic absenteeism was 15% at Northview and 74% at Fairvalley, while graduation rates were high at both—98% and 97%, respectively.
Across the two schools, average proficiency moved farther below state rates from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: the gaps widened by 5 points in English, 4 in math, and 5 in science. Northview’s English score fell 9 points, from 54% to 45%; its SchoolDigger ranking also fell from the 52nd percentile in 2024–2025 to the 38th in 2025–2026. Fairvalley’s ranking was near the bottom, moving from the 2nd to the 1st percentile. The schools also differ in resources and student characteristics: in 2024–2025, student-teacher ratios were 22.4 at Northview and 7.8 at Fairvalley, and reported spending was $24,136 and $43,376 per student. That year, 79% of Northview students and 87% of Fairvalley students were free/reduced lunch eligible; these are contextual observations, not explanations for the score differences.
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