Summary:
Thatcher, Arizona, has six listed schools—two elementary, one middle and three high schools—with a combined enrollment of 1,825 students across different grade spans. Among the three schools with reported all-grades AASA results, ELA proficiency averages 44% compared with 41% statewide, while math averages 33% compared with 33% statewide. The clearest concern is math at Thatcher Middle School, where 26% of students are proficient, 7 percentage points below the state.
Thatcher Elementary School leads the three schools with reported all-grades results, at 47% proficient in ELA and 37% in math; those are 5 and 11 points above the lowest reported school rates, respectively. Its grade 4 results stand out most in same-grade comparisons: 61% in ELA versus 47% statewide, and 49% in math versus 40%. At the other end, Thatcher Middle’s math result is 11 points below Thatcher Elementary’s. Science offers a counterpoint: Thatcher Middle’s grade 8 result is 43%, 13 points above the state, while grade 5 science at Thatcher Elementary is 28%, 6 points below.
SchoolDigger rankings show declining statewide percentile standing from 2023–24 to 2025–26 at all three ranked schools: Thatcher Elementary fell from the 59th to the 53rd percentile, Thatcher Middle from the 59th to the 52nd, and Thatcher High School from the 74th to the 57th. These rankings are not year-to-year test-score results; meanwhile, grade 11 at Thatcher High compares better with state results than its all-grades figures suggest, with 42% in ELA and 35% in math, each 4 points above the state for that grade. Reported student-teacher ratios range from 8 at GIFT - Gila Institute for Technology to 25.5 at Thatcher Elementary, while free/reduced-lunch figures are not available; Jack Daley Primary School has no test scores supplied, and Eagle Online Academy has suppressed AASA results.
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