Best Elementary Schools in Zip Code 85021

ZIP code 85021 has three elementary schools serving different grade spans: Orangewood School serves pre-K through eighth grade, Richard E. Miller School serves kindergarten through fifth grade, and Washington Elementary School District Online Learning Academy serves kindergarten through eighth grade. Their enrollments range from 81 students at the Academy to 797 at Orangewood. All reported all-grades scores are below state proficiency rates: ELA results are 20%–33%, compared with 41% statewide, and the two reported math results are 18% and 31%, compared with 33% statewide. The most important takeaway is that Miller has the largest reported shortfalls, while Orangewood’s math result is closest to the state rate.

The Academy leads in reported all-grades ELA at 33%, just 1 percentage point above Orangewood’s 32%; Miller is lowest at 20%, 13 points behind the Academy. In math, Orangewood leads among schools with reported results at 31%, while Miller has 18%, a 13-point difference; the Academy’s score is suppressed. Orangewood’s strongest results are in seventh grade: 53% in ELA and 45% in math, respectively 10 and 18 points above state rates. Those scores also exceed results in the Washington Elementary School District by 19 and 22 points. Miller, by contrast, is 21 points below the state in all-grades ELA and 15 points below in math.

SchoolDigger’s statewide rank percentile for Orangewood fell from 27 in 2023–24 to 17 in 2025–26, while Miller’s moved from 4 to 6, with little net change across the period. These ranks describe relative standing, not whether test scores themselves rose or fell. Enrollment and staffing figures do not point to a simple pattern: Orangewood has 797 students and a student–teacher ratio of 18.7, while Miller has 414 students and a ratio of 16.8; the smallest school, the Academy, has the highest reported ELA result. Orangewood is the only school with supplied science scores, which are stronger in eighth grade than fifth grade; the Academy’s math score and its staffing ratio are not supplied.