Summary:
Chinle Unified District has one listed middle school in Chinle: Chinle Junior High School, serving grades 7–8, with 373 students and a 14.9 student–teacher ratio. With no other middle school listed, families have no school-to-school comparison in this data. The clearest concern in the 2025–26 results is ELA: 34% of students were proficient, 7 percentage points below the state’s 41%, while math was closer to the state at 31% versus 33%.
As the sole listed school, Chinle Junior High is both the highest- and lowest-performing school in this set; the more useful comparison is how its results differ by subject and grade. Eighth-grade math is the standout: 35% were proficient, compared with 30% statewide, while seventh-grade math was just below the state at 26% versus 27%. ELA was below the state in both grades: 36% versus 43% in grade 7 and 33% versus 39% in grade 8. The weakest supplied comparison is eighth-grade science, with 15% proficient at the school, versus 19% districtwide and 30% statewide in 2024–25.
SchoolDigger’s ranking shows a substantial rise in relative standing, from the 16th percentile in 2023–24 to the 26th in 2024–25 and the 46th in 2025–26; its rank improved from 463 of 550 schools to 291 of 536. This ranking increase is encouraging, but it does not show that test scores rose: the supplied proficiency results do not provide a comparable multi-year series. Within the current results, math differs notably by grade: eighth-grade proficiency is 9 percentage points higher than seventh-grade proficiency, while the state’s grade difference is 3 points. The school’s free/reduced-lunch figure is not reported, so that context is unavailable.
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