Summary:
Zip code 95437 has three Fort Bragg Unified high schools serving grades 9–12: Fort Bragg High, Noyo High (Continuation), and Lighthouse Community Day. They vary greatly in size, from 7 students at Lighthouse to 569 at Fort Bragg. The most important difference for families is completion: Fort Bragg reports a 98% graduation rate, while Noyo reports 32%.
Fort Bragg High has the strongest reported graduation and dropout figures: its graduation rate is 10 percentage points above the state’s 88%, and its dropout rate is 7 points below the state’s 8%. Noyo High is at the other end on those outcomes, with graduation 56 points below the state and dropout 39 points above it. Attendance is a concern across all three schools: chronic absenteeism is 22% at Fort Bragg, 97% at Noyo, and 95% at Lighthouse, compared with 18% statewide. Fort Bragg’s all-grades proficiency is above district results in ELA, math, and science, but below state results by 2, 12, and 8 points, respectively. Test scores for Noyo and Lighthouse, and current graduation and dropout rates for Lighthouse, are not reported.
Fort Bragg’s results improved over time in ELA and math: its gaps with the state narrowed by 11 and 10 points, while its science gap widened by 3 points. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile for Fort Bragg rose from 42 in 2023–2024 to 50 in 2025–2026, and its star rating increased from two to three. Noyo’s more recent SchoolDigger percentiles remained low, moving from 1 in 2018–2019 to 2 in 2023–2024; Lighthouse’s listed rankings are older. The smaller schools have lower student-teacher ratios—10.8 at Noyo and 5.0 at Lighthouse, compared with 16.7 at Fort Bragg—and higher per-student spending, but the available scores do not show how those factors relate to achievement. Fort Bragg and Noyo reported free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–2025 of 78% and 93%; Lighthouse reported 77% for 2023–2024.
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