Summary:
Nogales Unified District includes 11 schools—six elementary, two middle, two high and one alternative—with results spanning elementary through high school. The nine schools with numerical all-grades results average 32% in ELA and 26% in math, close to district averages of 33% and 25%; however, results range by 33 points in ELA and 36 points in math, so district averages hide substantial differences between schools.
Robert Bracker Elementary stands out in ELA, with 50% proficiency—9 points above the state and 20 points above the other eight schools’ average. Francisco Vasquez De Coronado Elementary School leads in math at 50%, 17 points above the state and 27 points above the other eight schools’ average; these are the only two of the nine schools above state results in both subjects. At the lower end, Lincoln Elementary School has the lowest ELA result, 17%—24 points below the state—while Wade Carpenter Middle School has the lowest math result, 14%, 19 points below the state.
SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile rankings show mixed movement rather than broad improvement: the average for eight schools fell from 36 in 2023–24 to 33 in 2025–26. Lincoln dropped from 28 to 7, while Mary L Welty Elementary School rose from 12 to 16; Desert Shadows Middle School edged up from 48 to 49, and Bracker remained at 57. Desert Shadows also offers a notable grade-specific contrast: its grade 7 results—51% ELA and 39% math—beat state results of 43% and 27%, while Wade Carpenter recorded 33% and 14%. Desert Shadows has 784 students and a 23-to-1 student–teacher ratio, compared with Wade Carpenter’s 547 students and 21.8-to-1 ratio; these figures describe the schools but do not explain the differences in results. Ranking changes reflect SchoolDigger’s relative percentiles, not changes in proficiency.
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