Summary:
Chinle Unified District includes seven schools—five elementary schools, one junior high, and one high school—serving students from elementary through high school. In 2025–26, the schools’ average all-grades proficiency was 39% in ELA, 2 percentage points below the state’s 41%, and 36% in math, 3 points above the state’s 33%. Results vary substantially from school to school, with Chinle High School the clearest low point.
Many Farms Elementary School and Tsaile Elementary School stand out at the top: Many Farms has 54% all-grades ELA proficiency, while Tsaile leads in math at 48%; both are above state rates and each has a four-star, 76th-percentile SchoolDigger ranking. Many Farms’ third graders are especially strong, with 90% proficient in ELA and 85% in math, versus 39% and 38% statewide. Chinle High is at 18% in both subjects—23 points below the state in ELA and 15 points below in math. Chinle Elementary School is another bright spot, at 48% in ELA and 46% in math, above the state in both.
SchoolDigger’s rankings show improved relative standing for most schools, though that does not establish that proficiency scores themselves rose. From 2023–24 to 2025–26, rankings increased 30 percentile points for Chinle Junior High School, 9 for Chinle Elementary and Tsaile, and 7 for Chinle High; Many Farms fell 4 points. Mesa View Elementary and Canyon De Chelly Elementary School also rose from their 2022–23 rankings, by 31 and 42 points. Staffing ratios alone do not predict results: Tsaile and Many Farms have ratios of 11.5 and 10.8 students per teacher, but Chinle Elementary also exceeds state proficiency rates with a ratio of 17.4.
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