Summary:
Fall River, Massachusetts has 20 schools serving about 14,168 students — 11 elementary, 3 middle, 4 high, and 2 alternative — with enrollment ranging from 56 students at Stone Pk-12 School to 2,642 at B M C Durfee High. Overall, the Fall River district trails Massachusetts widely: all-grades ELA and math proficiency are both 18.24% versus state averages of 40.03% and 41.11%, and science is 15.29% against 40.98%. The district ranks 331st of 351 districts, at the 6th percentile with 0 stars.
The clearest standout is Diman Regional Vocational Technical High, part of the Greater Fall River Regional Vocational Technical district: 98.9% graduation, 0.6% dropout, 10th-grade math at 30.24%, and Biology EOC at 37.66%, essentially matching the state's 37.68%. Argosy Collegiate Charter School improved from 17 to 29 to 33 percentile and posts 10th-grade ELA at 39.73%. Atlantis Charter School pairs a 93.8% graduation rate and 3.8% dropout rate with much lower 10th-grade scores (ELA 14.75%, math 11.29%). Among younger grades, James Tansey holds the highest 2025–26 rank percentile of any listed school at 36, with math at 38.30%; North End Elementary exceeded the state science average at 41.98%; and Samuel Watson climbed from 11 to 17 to 31 percentile.
Middle schools are a clear weak point: Matthew J Kuss Middle has 9.02% math proficiency, Morton Middle 7.39% science, and Talbot Innovation School, the strongest of the three, still sits far below state averages. The alternative schools show the starkest profiles: Resiliency Preparatory Academy reports 0% proficiency on the 2025–26 tests shown, a 33.3% graduation rate, and 46.7% dropout; Stone Pk-12 School has the city's highest per-student spending at $36,143 yet also very low proficiency, showing spending alone does not predict outcomes. Scores also swing sharply year to year: Tansey slipped from the 58th to the 36th percentile, and Spencer Borden from the 36th to the 23rd. One important limitation: free/reduced-lunch data is blank for every school, so results cannot be connected to poverty here.
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