Summary:
85009 has 11 schools—eight elementary, two middle and one high school—with grade spans ranging from elementary-only and PK–8 to grades 9–12; among the 10 schools with reported 2025–26 all-grades results, average proficiency was 21% in ELA and 16% in math, compared with state rates of 41% and 33%. The clearest takeaway is that Magnet Traditional School is a major exception to a broader pattern of low results: without Magnet, the other nine schools average 18% in ELA and 13% in math.
Magnet Traditional School leads by a wide margin, with 47% ELA and 40% math proficiency—26 and 24 percentage points above the next-highest school in each subject—and its results are 6 and 7 points above state rates. At the low end, Carl Hayden High School reports 12% ELA and 9% math; Isaac Middle School also reports 9% math. Grade-level results add useful detail: Magnet’s fifth-grade science rate is 39%, above the state’s 34%, while the other three schools reporting fifth-grade science score 12% to 20%.
SchoolDigger’s rankings show different trajectories rather than a consistent area-wide shift: Magnet fell from the 75th to the 59th percentile between 2023–24 and 2025–26, while William R. Sullivan Elementary School rose from the 17th to the 32nd percentile and Carl Hayden rose from the 1st to the 7th. These ranking changes do not establish changes in test scores. Magnet also has the lowest reported student–teacher ratio, 13.6, while Sullivan’s is the highest, 25.8; these figures alone do not explain schools’ different results. Because schools serve different grades and Isaac Online Prep Academy has suppressed results, comparisons have limits; free/reduced-lunch figures are unavailable.
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