Summary:
Emily Gray Junior High School is the only middle school listed in the Tanque Verde Unified District, serving grades 7–8 and enrolling 420 students. Its 2025–26 all-grades proficiency was 58% in English language arts (ELA) and 49% in math; eighth-grade science proficiency was 42% in 2024–25. The most important finding is that the school scored above statewide proficiency in every reported subject and grade: by 17 points in all-grades ELA, 16 points in all-grades math, and 12 points in eighth-grade science.
With just one school, there is no top-versus-bottom comparison within the area; Emily Gray is both the highest and lowest school in this list. Its strongest relative result is seventh-grade ELA: 65% proficient, 22 points above the state, compared with an 11-point state advantage in eighth-grade ELA (50%). Math results are similarly strong against the state in both grades: 48% in seventh grade, 21 points higher, and 50% in eighth grade, 20 points higher. However, the all-grades results are below the district’s figures by 5 points in ELA (58% versus 63%) and 11 points in math (49% versus 60%); school and district results are equal in each reported grade-level subject. SchoolDigger gives Emily Gray four stars.
SchoolDigger’s ranking has improved over the three listed years, rising from 130th of 550 Arizona middle schools and the 76th percentile in 2023–24 to 97th of 536 and the 82nd percentile in 2025–26—a move up 33 places and 6 percentile points. This is a change in relative ranking, not evidence that test scores rose. The reported student–teacher ratio is 17.8, while the free/reduced-lunch field is blank. The district’s 2024–25 dropout rate was 3%, compared with 5% statewide, but the school’s listed rate is from 2021–22, so those figures do not establish a school trend. Because there is only one school and no earlier test scores are supplied, the data cannot support school-to-school comparisons or a test-score trend.
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