Monument Valley High School

Monument Valley High School serves 618 students in grades 9–12 in Kayenta, Arizona, and no other schools are listed within 20 miles. The school’s graduation and dropout figures are encouraging, but its latest English and math proficiency rates are well below state averages. The most important takeaway is this contrast: more students are graduating, while test results remain substantially behind the state.

There are no nearby-school results for a local comparison. In 2025–26, all-grades ELA proficiency was 15% at the school, compared with 20% in the Kayenta Unified School District #27 and 41% statewide; math was 12%, compared with 19% in the district and 33% statewide. The school matched its district in 11th-grade ELA and math, at 15% and 12%, respectively, but those results were 23 and 19 points below state rates. In science, 11th-grade proficiency was 9% in 2024–25, matching the district but trailing the state’s 19%.

Completion results have improved: from 2020–21 to 2024–25, graduation rose from 78% to 91%, a 13-point increase, while dropout fell from 10% to 2%. The latest graduation and dropout rates matched the district; graduation was 11 points above the state, and dropout was 3 points below it. Science proficiency rose from 6% in 2022–23 to 14% the next year, then fell to 9%; its gap to the state narrowed by 6 points from the first year to the last. SchoolDigger ranks the school 227th of 256 Arizona schools, at the 11th percentile with one star—up 7 percentile points from the prior year, but still low statewide. Its student-teacher ratio averaged 15.1 across the three reported years, and its reported free/reduced-lunch rate was 84% in 2022–23. SchoolDigger’s statewide measure of how well the school serves English Language Learner students placed it at the 79th percentile in 2021–22, compared with the school’s overall 19th percentile; for White Students, it was at the 74th percentile in 2022–23, compared with 11th overall.