Show Low Unified District

Show Low Unified District includes seven schools in the Show Low area: three elementary schools, a junior high, and three schools labeled alternative, with grade spans ranging from kindergarten through grade 12. The clearest achievement pattern is that Linden Elementary School leads the reported results, while math results vary considerably across schools.

Linden stands out at 57% proficient in all-grades ELA and 52% in math—the highest reported school figures in both subjects—and its grades 3–5 results beat state figures in all six ELA and math comparisons. By contrast, Show Low Junior High School has the lowest reported all-grades math result, 28%, though its 41% ELA matches the state. Nikolaus Homestead Elementary School shows a particular fifth-grade math weakness: 26%, compared with 38% statewide and 51% at Linden. Show Low High School is above state results in grade 11 ELA (41% versus 38%) and math (33% versus 31%); its graduation rate is 91% versus 80% statewide.

Recent SchoolDigger rankings have generally moved upward for the three schools with consecutive recent records: Linden rose from the 62nd to the 72nd percentile between 2023–2024 and 2025–2026, Nikolaus Homestead from the 33rd to the 47th, and Show Low Junior High from the 48th to the 49th, after reaching 52nd in 2024–2025. SchoolDigger rates the district at the 53rd percentile, with three stars, but school-level differences are more useful for comparing options. Linden also has a lower student-teacher ratio than Nikolaus Homestead—14.8 versus 19.1—alongside stronger listed grade-level results; these figures do not establish why results differ. Test scores are suppressed for White Mountain Institute and Wmi On Line, unavailable for Whipple Ranch Elementary School, and free/reduced-lunch figures are blank for all seven schools.