Summary:
Fall River, Massachusetts is home to two high schools, both in the Fall River district: B M C Durfee High, a comprehensive school serving grades 9–12 with 2,642 students, and Resiliency Preparatory Academy, a much smaller school serving grades 7–12 with 171 students. The district itself ranks 331 of 351 statewide, at the 6th percentile with 0 stars, so both schools operate in a low-performing district context.
B M C Durfee High is the stronger of the two on nearly every comparable measure. It exceeds the district average in 9 of 10 reported MCAS proficiency comparisons, and its 2024–2025 graduation rate of 83.6% is above the district's 76.8%, while its dropout rate of 11.7% is below the district's 14.9%. It ranked 286 of 349 (18th percentile, 1 star) in 2024–2025, up from 316 of 348 the prior year, then slipped slightly to 301 of 353 in 2025–2026. Even so, Durfee trails the state average in every reported MCAS subject and year, with ELA as its relative strength (35.57% in 10th grade in 2024–2025, still 15.09 points below the state) and Physics as its weakest (0.00% in 2024–2025 versus a 44.25% state rate).
Resiliency Preparatory Academy shows far more severe outcomes: a 33.3% graduation rate, a 46.7% dropout rate (about four times Durfee's), and 0.00% proficiency in every reported MCAS record, while ranking 349 of 349 with 0 stars in 2024–2025. Notably, it spends more per student ($20,732 vs. $17,532 in 2020–2021) and has a lower student-teacher ratio (7.0 vs. 11.3). Those figures likely reflect different program models and student needs rather than a simple link to results, and the spending data predates the outcome data. Because Resiliency includes grades 7–8 and enrolls few students, all-grade comparisons should be read cautiously.
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