Summary:
The area has one high school, Carrier Mills-Stonefort High School, serving grades 9–12 with 94 students, in Carrier Mills-Stonefort CUSD 2. With no other local high school to compare, the clearest current academic bright spot is ninth-grade PreACT Secure: ELA and science were both about 10 percentage points above state results in 2025–2026.
There is no local school-to-school leader or trailer, but the school’s results show both strengths and areas to watch. In 2025–2026, ninth-grade PreACT Secure ELA was 71% compared with 62% statewide, and science was 57% versus 47%. In contrast, 11th-grade ACT science was 44%, 4 points below the state. The 2024–2025 results show math as the clearest weakness: grade 11 ACT, grade 10 PreACT Secure and grade 9 PreACT Secure math were each below the state, by 23, 31 and 16 points, respectively. The 2025–2026 math results are suppressed, so families cannot tell from this data whether that gap continued. Other measures also merit attention: the 2025–2026 graduation rate was 80%, 10 points below the state, and chronic absenteeism was 26%, 2 points higher.
Available year-to-year test comparisons show improvement, though they cover only three matching test-and-grade combinations. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, ninth-grade PreACT Secure ELA rose 5 points and science rose 18 points; 11th-grade ACT science rose 12 points. In each comparison, the school gained ground relative to the state. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile ranking also climbed from the 23rd percentile and 1 star in 2023–2024 to the 73rd percentile and 4 stars in 2025–2026. For context, the school had 9.7 students per teacher and 55% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in the 2024–2025 school year. Because this list includes only one school, it cannot show how local schools compare or whether these characteristics are typical of the area.
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