Summary:
Payson Unified District has four listed schools serving kindergarten through grade 12: two elementary schools, a middle school and a high school. The supplied 2025–26 AASA results cover Julia Randall Elementary School, Rim Country Middle School and Payson High School. The clearest area-wide concern is that every available school result in all-grades English language arts (ELA) and math is below the state, with average gaps of about 10 percentage points in both subjects.
Julia Randall leads the available all-grades results, with 32% proficient in ELA and 26% in math; that is 2 points above the other schools in ELA and 3 to 5 points above them in math. It remains below state results of 41% in ELA and 33% in math. Rim Country has the lowest math result, at 21%—12 points below the state—and its 30% ELA result is tied with Payson High for the lowest available result. Payson High’s profile is mixed: its ELA and math results are below state levels, but its grade 11 science result is 22%, compared with 19% statewide. Its 2024–25 graduation rate is essentially the same as the state’s (80.1% versus 80.0%), and its dropout rate is lower (4% versus 5%).
SchoolDigger’s 2025–26 rankings put all three schools below the statewide midpoint: Payson High is at the 36th percentile, Rim Country at the 28th and Julia Randall at the 23rd. Their recent paths differ: Payson High rose from the 25th to the 36th percentile from 2023–24 to 2025–26, while Julia Randall fell from the 35th to the 23rd and Rim Country from the 33rd to the 28th. Reported student–teacher ratios range from 14.5 at Payson Elementary School to 17.3 at Payson High; the figures do not establish a link between ratios and results. Payson Elementary has no test results supplied, and free/reduced-lunch figures are blank for all four schools.
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