Summary:
The middle-school list for ZIP code 85018 contains one school, Ingleside Middle School, serving grades 6–8 with 789 students in the Scottsdale Unified District. Its 2025–26 proficiency rates were above Arizona’s in both English Language Arts (ELA) and math, and its eighth-grade science result was above the state rate as well. The most important takeaway is that the school’s state advantage appears in every reported grade and subject, although it is much smaller in grade 6 math.
With only one school listed, there is no higher- or lower-performing school to compare; Ingleside is both the top and bottom of the area’s list. Its all-grades ELA proficiency was 60%, 19 points above the state’s 41% and 1 point below the district’s 61%. Math proficiency was 44%, 11 points above the state’s 33% but 12 points below the district’s 56%. Eighth-grade science was 50%, compared with 30% statewide and 47% in the district. Grade-level results show where the differences are clearest: math was 35% in grade 6, just 5 points above the state, compared with 46% in grade 7 and 50% in grade 8, which were 19 and 20 points above. ELA was more consistently above the state, by 16–22 points across grades.
SchoolDigger’s ranking history moved in a better direction, from 138th of 550 Arizona schools in 2023–24 to 112th of 536 in 2025–26; its reported percentile rose from 75 to 79 and then stayed there. SchoolDigger gives the district 4 stars and ranks it 75th of 267 districts. The school’s 2024–25 student-teacher ratio was 16.8, but the available figures do not provide a peer-school comparison, and the free/reduced-lunch field is blank. The ranking history offers encouraging context, but available test results do not establish whether proficiency is rising or falling over time.
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