Summary:
Zip code 02720 in Fall River, Massachusetts contains two high schools, both part of the Fall River district: B M C Durfee High, which serves grades 9–12 with 2,642 students, and Resiliency Preparatory Academy, which serves grades 7–12 with 171 students. Together they enroll about 2,813 students, and B M C Durfee High accounts for roughly 93.9% of that total. The Fall River district itself ranks 331 of 351 in Massachusetts, at the 6th percentile, with 0 stars.
The two schools look very different on outcomes. B M C Durfee High has a graduation rate of 83.6% and a dropout rate of 11.7%, both better than the district's 76.8% and 14.9%. Resiliency Preparatory Academy has a graduation rate of 33.3% and a dropout rate of 46.7% — a 50.3-point graduation gap and a 35-point dropout gap between the two schools. On MCAS, B M C Durfee High scored 31.89% proficient in 10th-grade ELA, 16.94% in 10th-grade math, 17.58% in 10th-grade science, and 4.96% in physics end-of-course; those are above district averages but well below state averages. Resiliency Preparatory Academy reported 0% proficiency in every MCAS area shown for both 2024–2025 and 2025–2026.
Recent rankings place B M C Durfee High at 301 of 353, the 15th percentile with 1 star, up from 9th percentile and 0 stars in 2023–2024, while Resiliency Preparatory Academy sits at 349 of 349, the 0th percentile with 0 stars. Notably, Resiliency Preparatory Academy spends more per student ($20,732 vs. $17,532, from 2020–2021) and has a smaller student-teacher ratio (7.0 vs. 11.3). Free/reduced-lunch data is blank for both schools, and Resiliency's small size means its percentages come from small cohorts.
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