Summary:
Joseph City Unified District has one middle school, Joseph City Junior High School, serving grades 6–8. In 2025–2026, the school’s all-grades ELA proficiency was 39%, close to Arizona’s 41%, while its math proficiency was 17%. The clearest concern is math: the school was 16 percentage points below the state and 6 points below its district, compared with a 2-point state gap in ELA.
There is no meaningful school-to-school top or bottom comparison because this is the only school listed; it is highest and lowest by default, and grade-level math results are suppressed. Within its results, grade 8 ELA stands out positively: 40% met proficiency, 1 point above the state rate of 39%. Grade 6 ELA was the biggest grade-level ELA gap, at 35% compared with 41% statewide, while grade 7 was 42% versus 43%. Overall, the school’s 39% ELA rate was 4 points below the district’s 43%, and its math rate was 6 points below the district’s 23%.
SchoolDigger’s ranking history shows a rise and then a return to its earlier percentile, rather than a net change across the years reported: the school was at the 50th percentile and 2 stars in 2022–2023, the 58th percentile and 3 stars in 2023–2024, and the 50th percentile and 3 stars in 2025–2026. These rankings are separate from the one year of proficiency results. The school has 97 students and a student-teacher ratio of 7.2, based on 2024–2025 figures; no free/reduced-lunch rate is provided. The results also show a 22-point gap between ELA and math proficiency, reinforcing that the school’s academic profile varies substantially by subject.
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