Winslow Junior High School

Winslow Junior High School in Winslow, Arizona, serves 293 students in grades 7–8. There are no other schools within 20 miles, so the most useful comparisons are with the Winslow Unified District and Arizona. In the latest all-grade results, from 2025–26, 28% of students were proficient in English Language Arts (ELA) and 16% in math; math is the school’s clearest weakness, trailing the district by 5 percentage points and the state by 17.

ELA is closer to the district, but still below the state: 28% were proficient at Winslow, compared with 30% districtwide and 41% statewide. Math results were 16%, against 21% in the district and 33% statewide. Within the school, seventh graders had stronger ELA results than eighth graders (35% versus 24%), while eighth graders did better in math (19% versus 13%). Both grades matched their district counterparts in each subject, but remained below state results. In eighth-grade science, 19% were proficient in 2024–25, matching the district and trailing the state’s 30%.

Science proficiency rose 3 percentage points, from 16% in 2022–23 to 19% in 2024–25, matching the district’s improvement; the gap to the state stayed about the same. SchoolDigger ranks the school 411th of 536 statewide, at the 23rd percentile with 1 star. Its percentile has fluctuated over time, reaching 43 in 2020–21 before falling to 19 in 2024–25 and then rising to 23. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking for how well the school serves Special Education students also shifted sharply: it was at the 72nd percentile in 2020–21, compared with the school’s overall 43rd percentile, then at the 2nd percentile in 2022–23, while the overall ranking was 38. The reported student-teacher ratio is 16.7, and the free/reduced-lunch rate was 43% in 2022–23; these figures provide context but do not establish how the school compares with nearby schools.