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Best High Schools in Zip Code 96056

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At a glance

Schools

250

Students

Top rankedFall River Junior-Senior High890^th of 2,137 California high schools

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Biggest riser

Fall River Junior-Senior High up 233 spots statewide this year

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Summary:

ZIP code 96056 has three high schools in the Fall River Joint Unified district: Fall River Junior-Senior High (grades 7–12, 226 students), Soldier Mountain High (Continuation) (grades 9–12, 13 students), and Fall River Community Day (grades 7–12, 11 students). The most important takeaway is that attendance is a notable concern at the smaller schools: Soldier Mountain’s chronic absenteeism was 82% in 2025–2026, while Community Day reported 92% in 2024–2025.

Fall River Junior-Senior High is the only school with published school-level test results, and its performance varies sharply by grade and subject. In 2025–2026, 12th-grade science was 57%, 24 percentage points above the state, and 11th-grade ELA was 65%, 7 points above. On the other hand, all-grades math was 21%, 18 points below the state, and 7th-grade ELA was 28%, 22 points below. The school also reported a 100% graduation rate and 0% dropout rate, alongside chronic absenteeism of 32%, compared with 18% statewide. Soldier Mountain’s test scores are state-suppressed, and Community Day has no test-score entries, so the available results do not support ranking all three schools by achievement.

Recent changes at Fall River Junior-Senior High were mixed: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, science rose 14 percentage points, ELA was nearly flat (up less than 1 point), and math fell 1 point. SchoolDigger’s ranking improved from the 48th percentile to the 58th percentile over those years. For 2024–2025, student-teacher ratios were 14.9 at Fall River Junior-Senior, 16.2 at Soldier Mountain, and 11.0 at Community Day. The schools’ free/reduced lunch eligible figures that year were 42%, 69%, and 73%, respectively; these are context about each school, not an explanation of its results.

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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	890^th of 2137 public high schools	58.4%		45.8	1123^rd of 2162 public high schools	48.1%	233	23.7	29.4	57.1	31.4	28.1	31.6	64.9	42.1	25.0	21.1	16.2	20.6	$18,490	$17,838	$652
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)													$24,458	$21,658	$2,800
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)													$27,010	$27,010	$00

Cities Near Zip Code 96056

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
McArthur	8.35 mi	3	564^th
Bieber	11.64 mi	2
Fall River Mills	11.94 mi	2	379^th
Burney	24.82 mi	7	400^th
Montgomery Creek	36.99 mi	1	741^st

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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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