Fall River Junior-Senior Hs

Mcarthur · Shasta County · Fall River Joint Unified
Public Shasta County 🏛 Fall River Joint Unified → ~36 seniors CDS 4569989…
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Burney Junior-Senior Hs → Los Molinos High School → Northern Summit Academy Shasta → Redding Collegiate Academy → Pioneer Continuation High → Compare all similar →

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment (9–12)
243 (2018)218 (2026)
-10.3%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
30 (2018)38 (2026)
+26.7%

If this trend holds (-1.3%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~215 -3 $0
3 yr (2029) ~209 -9 $0
5 yr (2031) ~204 -14 $0

Straight-line extrapolation of the recent annual rate — a what-if, not a forecast of intent. Default = California's LCFF base grant for grades 9–12 ($12,423/ADA). Edit the figure to match your school.

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.

Mixed signal
Demand outpacing county is masking internal churn.

Enrollment growth is beating Shasta County (+26.7% vs. +12.3%), 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%  school enrollment (2018–2026)
+12.3%  Shasta County baseline
+14.4pp  gap vs. county
74.5%  retention (county median 79.1%)
Enrollment — 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 Hs this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (25.5% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Shasta County median
79.1% · school is in the 45th percentile of 20 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 25th percentile of 1,688 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 Hs 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.

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.

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 60% of 20 HS
Statewide median
22.9%
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).

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.

ELA — met or exceeded
n = 40
55.0%
incl. 22.5% exceeded
On the Shasta County median (55.4%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 40
10.0%
incl. 0.0% exceeded
-23.1 pts vs. Shasta County median (33.1%) · CA median 21.1% · 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

Students w/ disabilities 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.

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).

University of California outcomes · Class of 2024
UC Reach
N/A
UC Application Reach
N/A
None applications
UC Admit Rate
N/A
None / None applications
UC Yield Rate
N/A
None enrolled of None 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
N/A
None enrollees / 36 seniors
Enrollment Reach vs. Yield: Reach answers "of the whole senior class, what % 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
218:1
1.0 FTE counselors · 218 students
In context: CA median 338:1 · 120 fewer students per counselor · ASCA target 250:1.
A-G Completion
40%
15 of 38 graduates · 2024-25 cohort
In context: CA median 55.9% · -16.4 pp vs. median · Shasta Co. 38.0%.
Selective UC Reach (UCSD, UCSB, UCI, UCD)
N/A
Elite UC Reach (UCB + UCLA)
N/A
Senior Class Size
36
CDE grade 12 (exact)
Total School Enrollment
238
All grades · CDE Census Day
Economic Connectedness
0.83
31st percentile in CA · cross‑class friendships

Fall River Junior-Senior Hs — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · Mcarthur · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is up 27% (30→38 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of +11%.
  • At its recent rate (-1.3%/yr), enrollment projects to ~209 by 2029 — about 9 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

218 students (2026)
~209 projected (2029)
at -1.3%/yr

That's about 9 fewer students. At per-student funding of $ per student, that's roughly $0 in annual state funding at risk.

Default = California's LCFF base grant for grades 9–12 ($12,423 per ADA) — adjust to your district's actual per-pupil figure. Projection extrapolates the recent annual rate — not a forecast of intent.

Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools

School Type Size UC Reach Enroll. trend
Fall River Junior-Senior Hs Public 218 +27%
Peer-group median 7.9% +11%
Burney Junior-Senior Hs Public 231 -3%
Los Molinos High School Public 213 5.6% -2%
Northern Summit Academy Shasta Public 209 +48%
Redding Collegiate Academy Public 229 +343%
Pioneer Continuation High Public 202 +13%
Tulelake High School Public 202 10.7% +20%
Stellar Charter Public 239 -14%
Golden Eagle Charter School Public 187 10.0% +67%
Modoc High School Public 259 7.9% +8%
Mount Shasta High School Public 261 6.3% -12%

UC Reach = top-6 UC admits ÷ senior class (can exceed 100% when students are admitted to multiple campuses). Enrollment trend = first-to-latest grade-12 change on file. Similar schools matched on proximity, size, type. Methodology →

Avg. Applicant GPA · top-6 UCs
3.98

GPA figures reflect 2023 — UC has not yet released applicant/admit GPA for 2024.

UC Outcomes Trend — 2018–2023

UC Admit Rate %
UC Reach % (where available)
UC Admits (count, right axis)

Class size from CDE grade 12 enrollment. Campus-level data — applicant/admit totals may count a student at multiple campuses more than once.

Campus Breakdown — 2024

Campus Applicants Admits Enrollees Admit Rate UC Reach Yield Avg GPA (App) '23 Avg GPA (Adm) '23
UC Berkeley → Elite
UCLA → Elite
UC San Diego → Selective 3.98
UC Santa Barbara → Selective
UC Irvine → Selective
UC Davis →
⚠ 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 requires unique-student counts. See methodology →

What This Means

Note: admit counts used here are campus-level totals. A student admitted to both UCLA and UCSD is counted twice. When UCOP unique-student data becomes available it will be loaded automatically and the labels will update.
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