Summary:
ZIP code 02721 in Fall River, Massachusetts contains five schools serving roughly 3,887 students from prekindergarten through grade 12: four elementary schools in the Fall River district — Henry Lord Community School (PK–8), William S Greene (PK–5), Letourneau Elementary School (PK–5) and John J Doran (PK–8) — plus Atlantis Charter School, a K–12 charter school that is its own district and the only school here serving high school grades. The Fall River district is ranked 331st of 351 Massachusetts districts, at the 6th percentile with 0 stars.
Comparing the schools: Letourneau Elementary School is the clear bright spot, the only school above the Fall River district average in all three subjects and the only 1-star school here in 2025–2026, with 27.60% proficient in ELA, 24.00% in math and 31.08% in science; it also improved in every subject year over year. Atlantis Charter School is next strongest overall (25.27% ELA, 24.31% math, 23.04% science), above district averages but far below the state, and its 10th-grade and biology scores are very low even though its graduation rate is 93.8% and dropout rate 3.8%. The three remaining schools sit near the bottom of the state: William S Greene (11.58% ELA, 12.54% math, 6.67% science) ranks in the 3rd percentile; Henry Lord Community School (15.76%, 15.92%, 6.04%) is in the 6th percentile; and John J Doran (16.45%, 18.09%, 12.26%) fell from the 19th to the 6th percentile.
Science is the weakest area across most of the ZIP — Henry Lord and Greene are both near 6% — and performance is diverging, with Letourneau improving while Greene, Henry Lord and John J Doran declined or stagnated. Higher spending and larger classes do not track with better results: John J Doran has the highest per-pupil spending ($17,100) and the highest student-teacher ratio (13.9) yet has declined sharply, while Letourneau spends less and performs best. Free/reduced lunch data are missing for all five schools, and spending figures date from 2020–2021.
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