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Best Public Schools in Zip Code 96056

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Schools

250

Students

Top rankedFall River Junior-Senior High891^st of 2,135 California high schools

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Summary:

Zip code 96056 has three high schools in Fall River Joint Unified: Fall River Junior-Senior High and Fall River Community Day serve grades 7–12, while Soldier Mountain High (Continuation) serves grades 9–12. Numeric school-level test scores are available only for Junior-Senior High; other reported measures span different years, and Soldier Mountain and Community Day enroll just 13 and 11 students. The clearest academic concern in the available results is Junior-Senior High’s mathematics score: 21%, compared with 38% statewide, an 18-point gap.

Attendance is the sharpest reported concern at Soldier Mountain: its 2025–2026 chronic absenteeism rate was 82%, 50 points above the district’s 32% and 64 points above the state’s 18%. Community Day had a 92% rate in 2024–2025. Junior-Senior High’s 32% rate was about the same as the district’s and 14 points above the state’s. On other measures, Junior-Senior High reported a 100% graduation rate, versus 90% for the district and 88% statewide. Its 11th-grade ELA result (65%) and 12th-grade science result (57%) also exceeded state results for those grades by 7 and 24 points. These are standouts by individual measure, not an overall school ranking.

Junior-Senior High’s science results improved substantially, rising from 17% in 2024–2025 to 31% in 2025–2026, while the state increased from 33% to 36%; its state gap narrowed by 11 points. ELA stayed roughly even relative to the state, at 7 points below, and was 2 points above the district in 2025–2026. Mathematics moved the other way: the school’s score fell slightly while the state’s rose, widening the gap by 2 points. Results vary by grade, so the stronger 11th-grade ELA and 12th-grade science scores do not describe every grade. For context, 2024–2025 student-teacher ratios ranged from 11.0 at Community Day to 16.2 at Soldier Mountain; the schools’ free/reduced lunch eligible shares that year were 42%, 69%, and 73%, respectively. Those differences describe the schools but do not establish why outcomes differ.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2026)				Ranking (2025)				CAST Science (2026)				Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy (2026)				Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics (2026)				Per Pupil Expenditures (2025)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/reduced lunch (2024-25)	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2026)	Statewide Rank (2026)	State Percentile (2026)	SchoolDigger Rating (2026)	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	Rank Change from Previous Year	CAST Science 8th Grade	CAST Science 11th Grade	CAST Science 12th Grade	CAST Science All Grades	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 7th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 8th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 11th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy All Grades	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 7th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 8th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 11th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics All Grades	Per Pupil Expenditures Total	Sub-total from Federal Funds	Sub-total from State/Local Funds
Fall River Junior-Senior High	Public	7-12	44215 Walnut St.	McArthur	96056	Shasta County	Fall River Joint Unified	No	(n/a)	No	(n/a)	(530) 336-5515	226	15	14.9	42.0%	129 (57.1%)	0 (0.0%)	81 (35.8%)	2 (0.9%)	7 (3.1%)	0 (0.0%)	7 (3.1%)	56.4	891^st of 2135 public high schools	58.3%		45.8	1123^rd of 2162 public high schools	48.1%	232	23.7	29.4	57.1	31.4	28.1	31.6	64.9	42.1	25.0	21.1	16.2	20.6	$10,725	$652	$10,073
Soldier Mountain High (Continuation)	Public	9-12	44144 A St.	McArthur	96056	Shasta County	Fall River Joint Unified	No	(n/a)	No	(n/a)	(530) 336-7159	13	1	16.2	69.2%	7 (53.8%)	0 (0.0%)	6 (46.2%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)								(n/a)													$14,158	$2,800	$11,358
Fall River Community Day	Public	7-12	44144 A St.	McArthur	96056	Shasta County	Fall River Joint Unified	No	(n/a)	No	(n/a)	(530) 336-7159	11	1	11.0	72.7%	6 (54.5%)	0 (0.0%)	3 (27.3%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (9.1%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (9.1%)								(n/a)													$14,269	$00	$14,269

Cities Near Zip Code 96056

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
McArthur	8.35 mi	3	534^th
Bieber	11.64 mi	2
Fall River Mills	11.94 mi	2	413^th
Burney	24.82 mi	7	539^th
Montgomery Creek	36.99 mi	1	538^th

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the California Department of Education.

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