Fall River Junior-Senior High School

Mcarthur · Shasta County · Fall River Joint Unified · Public

Public Shasta County Fall River Joint Unified → CDS 4569989…

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95% 4-yr grad rate

At a glance

Academic signals

AP rigor: Bottom 29% of US high schools
SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 16% by test-taker volume
4-yr grad rate: 95% in 2019 (75th percentile nationally)

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts graduation data, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

California College-Going Rate

67.6% of the 2022-23 graduating class enrolled in college within a year.

The share of 2022-23 graduates who enrolled at a college anywhere in the U.S. within 12 months, per the National Student Clearinghouse match the California Department of Education publishes.

Within 12 months

67.6%

of 37 graduates

Give the same class four more months and 75.7% had enrolled — CDE publishes a 16-month window alongside the 12-month one, 28 students.

Up 4 points from the 2021-22 class (63.6%).

Where the 2022-23 class enrolled

In California — 19 students (51.4%)

University of California 5.4% 2

California State University 5.4% 2

California Community College 40.5% 15

California private college 0.0% 0

Out of state — 6 students (16.2%)

Out-of-state 4-year 5.4% 2

Out-of-state 2-year 10.8% 4

CDE puts each graduate in one bucket only — whichever kind of college they were enrolled in longest — so these add up to the rate above. That is a different count from the UC Reach Score on this page, which counts a student at every UC campus that admitted them.

Source: California Department of Education, College-Going Rate (DataQuest) ↗, cohort 2022-23, posted 17-Sep-2025. Data file: cgr12mo23.txt ↗ (and the 16-month file ↗). CDE builds the rate by matching California high school completers to National Student Clearinghouse enrollment records; we publish CDE’s aggregates and hold no student-level data.

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SAT / ACT participation

CRDC federal data · 2020-21

Bottom 16% by test-taker volume

SAT/ACT test-takers

11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test

Test-taking intensity

7.9

takers per 100 students in grades 9-12

Compared against

18,426

US high schools reporting SAT/ACT participation

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.

4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts

What % of students graduate on time?

75th percentile nationally

4-year graduation rate

95%

Range: 90–100%

4-year cohort size

Students in the 9th-grade entry class tracked over 4 years

Compared against

17,988

US high schools reporting 4-year ACGR

Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.

Federal Title I context

Title I Schoolwide eligible

≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program

42.0%

FRPL rate — % of students who qualify for the federal Free or Reduced-Price Lunch program. This is the underlying federal income-eligibility signal Title I designations are computed from (ESEA Sec. 1113).

0% (no FRPL) 35% TA · 40% Schoolwide 100% (universal FRPL)

40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.

SBAC academic outcomes — grade 11, 2025

Share of grade-11 students meeting or exceeding the California standard on Smarter Balanced ELA and Math. This is the academic-readiness signal that pairs with UC Reach (post-grad outcomes), stability (retention), and absenteeism (engagement). Note: statewide median Math is only ~20% — a school at 20% isn't an outlier; one at 45%+ genuinely is.

About 6 in 10 students read and write at grade level — about the state norm.

About 1 in 10 students do math at grade level — below the state norm — worth asking what extra support looks like.

ELA — met or exceeded

n = 40

55.0%

incl. 22.5% exceeded

On the Shasta County median (55.9%) · CA median 54.5% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.4%

Math — met or exceeded

n = 40

10.0%

incl. 0.0% exceeded

-24.5 pts vs. Shasta County median (34.5%) · CA median 21.4% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 53.6%

Source: California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) Smarter Balanced research files. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥30 tested students.

Student composition — 2025-26

HS grades 9–12 racial/ethnic composition and program subgroups, from CDE Census Day Enrollment. Two-year shift shown when ≥1 pt — surfaces how the community served has changed since 2023-24.

Race / ethnicity

White 53% -4.0

Hispanic / Latino 36%

American Indian 5% +2.4

Two or more 4% +1.0

Filipino 1%

Not reported 1% -1.1

Program subgroups

Socioeconomically disadv. 52%

Source: California Department of Education, Census Day Enrollment 2025-26 (HS grades 9–12). Δ shown when shift is ≥1 pt since 2023-24. Categories below 0.5% omitted.

Chronic absenteeism — 2024-25

Share of students missing 10% or more of expected attendance — the leading indicator that often precedes the demand decline shown above. Families disengaging tend to raise absenteeism first, then formally leave. Basis: grades 9–12.

29% of students miss 10%+ of school days — above the state's ~23%. Ask what the school is doing about engagement.

Chronic absent

29.4%

45 of 153 students

Absenteeism is up 10.9 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

Shasta County median

25.2% · school is worse than 63% of 19 HS

Statewide median

22.8%

Chronic absenteeism by year (raw %)

Source: California Department of Education, Chronic Absenteeism 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 eligible students. CDE didn't publish a usable 2019-20 file (COVID).

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment (9–12)

243 (2018) → 218 (2026)

-10.3%

Grade 12 (graduating class)

30 (2018) → 38 (2026)

+26.7%

How does Fall River Junior-Senior High School really compare on getting kids to college?

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Enrollment stability & demand — 2024-25

Two complementary signals: retention (do students stay once enrolled?) and demand (are families choosing the school?). Read against the Shasta County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

74% of students who start the year here finish it here.

Mixed signal

Demand outpacing county is masking internal churn.

Enrollment growth is beating Shasta County (+26.7% vs. +13.8%), but 40 of 157 students didn't maintain continuous enrollment. Why are families leaving once enrolled? Chronic absenteeism is rising (28.4%, +9.9 pts since 2016-17) — a watch signal worth monitoring as a leading indicator.

+26.7% senior class, grade 12 (2018–2026)

+13.8% Shasta County baseline

+12.9pp gap vs. county

74.5% retention (county median 77.2%)

Senior class (grade 12) — indexed to 100 at 2018

Stability rate by year (raw %)

Stability rate

74.5%

117 of 157 students

40 of 157 students who enrolled at Fall River Junior-Senior High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (25.5% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Shasta County median

77.2% · school is in the 47th percentile of 19 HS

Statewide median

87.3% · in the 25th percentile of 1,734 HS

Stability by student group

White (136) 75.7%

Socio. disadvantaged (109) 65.1%

Hispanic / Latino (83) 69.9%

Students w/ disabilities (40) 75.0%

Nearest peer high schools

Burney Junior-Senior High School 73.8% Los Molinos High School 85.4% Northern Summit Academy Shasta 52.0% Redding Collegiate Academy 88.6% Pioneer Continuation High 27.6%

Source: California Department of Education, Stability Rate 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 cumulative enrollees so by-design-high-churn continuation schools don't dominate the bottom of the distribution. Cumulative enrollment counts every student on the rolls during the year, so it can exceed peak-day enrollment.

District financial profile — Fall River Joint Unified (FY2020)

From 4 years of NCES F-33 filings (the federally-mandated district finance survey). Public schools don't have their own books — the district does. These figures show the financial scale, revenue dependence, instruction-vs-overhead mix, and long-term debt that shape what a school can sustain.

Total revenue

$19.6M

+15.5% since FY2017

Per-pupil revenue

$16,432

1,192 students enrolled

Revenue mix

State: 56.5%
Local: 30.9%
Federal: 12.6%

Instruction share

53.5%

of current spending · $8,769/pupil

Long-term debt

$2.4M

-26.7% since FY2017

Total revenue by year ($M)

Total expenditure by year ($M)

Source: NCES F-33 Annual Survey of School System Finances (Urban Institute Education Data API). Latest year currently published: FY2020. F-33 is a district-level federal filing — it reflects the Fall River Joint Unified as a whole, not this individual school's books. Revenue mix shows where the district's dollars come from (state aid dominates in CA via LCFF). Instruction share is current expenditure on instruction ÷ total current expenditure (national benchmark ~60%). Long-term debt is end-of-year outstanding (mostly facilities bonds).

UC Reach Score ⓘ methodology

UC Application Reach Score ⓘ

N/A

5 applications

UC Admit Rate ⓘ

N/A

— / 5 applications

UC Yield Rate ⓘ

N/A

— enrolled of — admitted

Yield vs. Enrollment Reach: Yield answers "of UC admits, what % chose UC?" — denominator is just the admits. A small admitted cohort can post a low yield even when the school sends a healthy share of its class to UC.

UC Enrollment Reach Score ⓘ

N/A

— enrollees / — seniors

Enrollment Reach vs. Yield: Reach answers "of the whole senior class, what share ended up at UC?" — denominator is everyone. High Yield with low Enrollment Reach is common at elite privates: most admits matriculate, but the school sends most of its class to non-UC selective colleges.

Student-Counselor Ratio ⓘ

Counseling here is unusually well-staffed — about 218 students per counselor, near what experts recommend.

218:1

1.0 FTE counselors · 218 students

In context: CA median 337:1 · 119 fewer students per counselor · ASCA target 250:1.

A-G Completion ⓘ

Only 4 in 10 graduates finish the courses UC and CSU require — below the state norm. Worth asking how course access and planning work here.

40%

15 of 38 graduates · 2024-25 cohort

In context: CA median 55.9% · -16.4 pp vs. median · Shasta Co. 33.5%.

Selective UC Reach (UCB, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, UCI — incl. the Elite two) ⓘ

N/A

Elite UC Reach (UCB + UCLA) ⓘ

N/A

Senior Class Size ⓘ

N/A

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Total School Enrollment ⓘ

All grades · CDE Census Day

Economic Connectedness ⓘ

0.83

31st percentile in CA · cross‑class friendships

Avg. Applicant GPA · top-6 UCs ⓘ

3.98

UC Outcomes Trend — 2018–2023

UC Admit Rate %

UC Reach Score (where available)

UC Admits (count, right axis)

Class size from CDE grade 12 enrollment. Campus-level data: applicant and admit totals count a student once at EACH campus. A senior admitted to UCLA and UC San Diego adds 2 to the admit total, so the total can exceed the senior class — that is the metric working as defined, not an error. The admit RATE is unaffected: both its numerator and denominator are campus-level.

Campus Breakdown — 2023

Campus	Applicants	Admits	Enrollees	Admit Rate	UC Reach Score	Yield	Avg GPA (App)	Avg GPA (Adm)
UC San Diego → Selective	5	—^†	—^†	—^†	—^†	—	3.98	—^†

† = UCOP-suppressed (count below 3 students, hidden for privacy — actual value is 0, 1, or 2, not necessarily zero). Campus-level totals may count one student admitted to multiple UC campuses more than once; Admit Volume metrics are not the same as UC Reach, which is measured against the whole senior class. See methodology →

What This Means

Note: the UC Reach Score sums campus-level admits across the top-six UC campuses, so a student admitted to both UCLA and UCSD is counted at each. It reflects competitive admit volume relative to class size — admit-events, not distinct students — which is why a Score can exceed 100.

Senior class size is estimated from CDE grade 12 enrollment data. Reach percentages should be interpreted as approximate.

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