Summary:
ZIP code 85017 has six high schools serving 1,024 students: four serve grades 9–12, while Career and College Prep and Robert L. Duffy High School serve grades 7–12. The most important gap for families is that all six schools’ 2025–26 English and math proficiency results are unavailable, so the supplied data cannot identify a subject-area leader. However, the five schools with reported dropout rates all exceed the state’s 5% rate: their figures range from 12% to 25%.
Think Through Academy stands out at both ends of the available measures: it has the highest latest SchoolDigger ranking in the group, at the 34th percentile, and the highest reported dropout rate, 25%. Bostrom Alternative Center has the lowest latest SchoolDigger ranking, at the 1st percentile. Among schools with dropout figures, Desiderata has the lowest rate, 12%, just below Technical Campus at 12%; the other reported rates are 14% at Bostrom and 21% at Career and College Prep. Technical Campus and Bostrom are the only schools with reported graduation rates: 20% and 23%, respectively, compared with 80% statewide.
SchoolDigger’s ranking history shows different directions rather than a common trend: from 2020–21 to 2021–22, Technical Campus fell from the 14th to the 9th percentile, Bostrom from the 14th to the 11th, and Career and College Prep from the 20th to the 9th; Think Through Academy rose from the 31st to the 34th percentile between 2020–21 and 2022–23. Class-size context also differs: Technical Campus has the highest reported student–teacher ratio, 49.1, while Desiderata has the lowest, 7.4. Those figures do not align neatly with dropout rates: Think Through Academy has a ratio of 12.2 but the highest reported dropout rate, while Technical Campus has the highest ratio and a 12% dropout rate. Ranking years vary, and results for the other four schools’ graduation rates are not reported.
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