Summary:
Tombstone has two schools serving PK–8 and grades 9–12: Walter J Meyer School has 151 students, and Tombstone High School has 461. The schools’ all-grades results show different strengths by subject: the high school reports higher ELA and math proficiency, while the two-school average is about 42% in ELA versus 41% for the state, and 26% in math versus 33% statewide. The clearest area-wide takeaway is that ELA is near the state level on average, but mathematics is below it.
Tombstone High School leads the reported all-grades results: ELA proficiency is 48%, compared with 35% at Walter J Meyer School, a 13-point gap; in math, the results are 31% and 21%, a 10-point gap. Against state figures, the high school is 7 points higher in all-grades ELA and 2 points lower in math; Walter is 6 points lower in ELA and 12 points lower in math. Walter has the standout grade-specific results: fourth-grade ELA is 77% versus 47% statewide, and fifth-grade science is 58% versus 34%. The high school’s 11th-grade ELA and science are also above state results by 10 and 8 points, respectively, while its 11th-grade math matches the state at 31%.
SchoolDigger’s ranking percentiles moved in different directions: Tombstone High’s went from 63 in 2023–24 to 58 in 2025–26, while Walter’s rose from 54 in 2020–21 to 60 in 2022–23 after reaching 51 in between. These rankings do not show that proficiency changed by the same amounts. The high school reports a student–teacher ratio of 16.9, compared with 15.1 at Walter; those figures, like enrollment, do not explain the schools’ differing results. Because the schools serve different grade spans, their all-grades comparisons and the simple two-school averages are not like-for-like measures.
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