Yuma Elementary District

The 19 schools in Yuma Elementary District include 14 elementary schools and five middle schools serving elementary and middle grades in Yuma. Across 18 schools with reported 2025–26 all-grades results, averages were 33% in ELA and 24% in math, compared with state figures of 41% and 33%. The clearest area-wide concern is math: the average was 9 percentage points below the state, versus an 8-point gap in ELA, and school results spanned 50 points in math compared with 35 in ELA.

James D. Price School leads both subjects, with 50% proficiency in ELA and 57% in math—9 and 24 points above the state, respectively. Dorothy Hall Elementary is next at 47% in ELA and 45% in math, also above state in both. At the lower end, Pecan Grove Elementary has the lowest ELA result, 15%, while Fourth Avenue Junior High has the lowest math result, 7%; each is 26 points below the state figure for that subject. Among middle schools, Ron Watson Middle School leads all-grades ELA at 35%, still 6 points below state, while Castle Dome Middle School has the lowest middle-school math result at 10%.

SchoolDigger rankings improved for more schools than they declined: of 14 schools with back-to-back percentile ranks, nine rose, four fell, and one was unchanged, with an average increase of 4 percentile points. Dorothy Hall has the highest listed statewide percentile, 60th; Fourth Avenue is lowest, 6th. These rank changes do not establish whether test proficiency is catching up to state levels. Size and student–teacher ratios do not consistently track results: Price has 63 students and the highest scores, while the largest school, Castle Dome, has 939 students and results of 30% in ELA and 10% in math. Similarly, Dorothy Hall and Desert Mesa Elementary have similar ratios—20.3 and 20.6 students per teacher—but Dorothy Hall is higher by 8 points in ELA and 7 in math. The digital academy’s all-grades scores are suppressed, and free/reduced-lunch fields are blank.