Tsaile Elementary School

Located in Tsaile, Arizona, Tsaile Elementary School serves 313 students in prekindergarten through eighth grade. In 2025–26, 52% of students were proficient in English language arts (ELA) and 48% in math—both rates were above the state and Chinle Unified District. The most important takeaway is that Tsaile’s results are stronger than state and district rates in both tested subjects.

Math is the school’s strongest subject compared with the state: its 48% proficiency rate was 15 percentage points above Arizona’s 33%. ELA was its stronger result compared with the district, at 52% versus 38%, a 14-point difference. Results vary by grade: fourth grade reached 70% in ELA and 62% in math, while fifth-grade ELA was 44%, and sixth- and eighth-grade math was 41% and 39%. Science is a relative weakness against the state: in 2022–23, fifth-grade proficiency was 23% versus 34% statewide, and eighth-grade proficiency was 15% versus 27%; both results were above the district. Nearby-school comparisons are available for enrollment and student–teacher ratio, but not test results: Tsaile enrolled 313 students, just one more than Lukachukai Community School and far more than Cove Day School, with 29.

SchoolDigger places Tsaile in the 76th statewide percentile, ranks it 217th of 900 schools, and gives it four stars in 2025–26. Its percentile rose from 26 in 2014–15, but fell from 85 the previous year. SchoolDigger’s 2025–26 statewide percentile for students with low socioeconomic status was 93, above the school’s overall 76; for Native American students it was also 93. Tsaile’s 2024–25 student–teacher ratio was 11.5, between Cove Day’s 9.6 and Lukachukai’s 12.7. Its free/reduced-lunch rate was 73% in 2022–23, while the nearby schools’ rates—90% and 99%—were reported for 2024–25. Nearby schools’ test results and SchoolDigger ratings are not available, and the Native American comparison groups were small.