Summary:
The three schools in Thomas-Fay-Custer Unified District serve students from prekindergarten through grade 12: Thomas Elementary School serves PK–6, Thomas-Fay-Custer Unified Junior High School serves grades 7–9, and Thomas-Fay-Custer Unified High School serves grades 10–12. The clearest overall pattern is a sharp subject-by-subject contrast: the junior high leads in math and science, while the high school is far behind it in those subjects.
The junior high had the strongest 2025–2026 all-grades math and science results: 45% and 53%, respectively. Those were 28 points and 39 points above the high school’s results of 17% and 14%; the junior high was also 20 and 23 points above state results. The high school led in ELA at 42%, compared with 38% at the elementary school and 14% at the junior high, and its U.S. History result was 44%, 3 points above the state. At the elementary school, grade 4 stood out: ELA was 45% and math 61%, exceeding state results by 23 and 28 points. SchoolDigger gave the junior high 4 stars and a rank of 95th out of 378, the elementary school 4 stars and a rank of 148th out of 626, and the high school 3 stars and a rank of 170th out of 462.
Results declined at all three schools from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: the three-school averages fell 13 points in ELA, 15 in math, and 11 in science, though the averages remained above state results. There are grade-level exceptions to the broader picture: elementary grade 3 math was 30% versus 33% statewide, and grade 5 science was 34% versus 35%. SchoolDigger’s reported percentile also fell year over year, by 11 points at the elementary school, 20 at the junior high, and 27 at the high school. As context, 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 60% at the elementary school, 59% at the junior high, and 42% at the high school; student-teacher ratios were 13.2, 9.7, and 11.7, respectively. These measures describe different school contexts, not causes of test results.
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