Summary:
Vail, Arizona’s school snapshot covers five schools: two elementary schools, one middle school and two high schools, with results spanning elementary through high school. The clearest difference in the area is in high-school completion: in 2024–25, Cienega High School graduated 95% of students, compared with 49% at Pantano High School. That is a 45-point gap, making graduation the most striking contrast in the available results.
Ocotillo Ridge Elementary leads the disclosed all-grades test results, with 66% meeting the ELA measure and 64% meeting the math measure; Acacia Elementary has 56% in ELA and 62% in math. Ocotillo’s biggest elementary advantage is in 5th grade: it leads Acacia by 23 points in ELA and 13 in math. Both elementary schools are above the state in all reported grade-and-subject comparisons. Old Vail Middle School is also above the state in all reported proficiency comparisons, though its all-grades ELA and math results trail the district by 3 and 10 points. Cienega’s graduation rate is 15 points above the state rate; Pantano’s is 31 points below it, and its 10% dropout rate is 5 points above the state. Pantano’s proficiency figures are suppressed and lunch-rate fields are blank for all five schools, so its test standing and income comparisons cannot be assessed.
SchoolDigger’s recent statewide percentiles show mixed movement rather than a shared upward trend: Acacia rose 6 points from 2023–24 to 2025–26, and Cienega rose 3, while Ocotillo fell 6 and Old Vail fell 3. Across those four schools, the average percentile started and ended at 79, after reaching 76 in between. Grade-level results can also change the picture: Acacia is 2 points ahead of Ocotillo in 3rd-grade math and the schools tie in 4th grade, despite Ocotillo’s higher all-grades math result. The school comparisons also do not show a simple link between staffing ratios and results: Ocotillo’s ratio is 13.7 students per teacher, compared with Acacia’s 19.7, but their grade-level leads vary.
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