Summary:
Zip code 85031 has one listed middle school, Marc T. Atkinson Middle School & Gifted Academy, serving grades 6–8, with 205 students and a 16:1 student-teacher ratio. With no other listed schools to compare locally, the most useful benchmarks are Arizona and Cartwright Elementary District. The strongest headline is that the school’s 2025–26 all-grades proficiency was well above the state in both subjects: 69% in ELA versus 41% statewide, and 49% in math versus 33%.
As the only school in the ZIP-code list, Atkinson is both the highest- and lowest-scoring school there by default; the results do not establish how it compares with other nearby schools. Against the district, its all-grades results were higher by 45 percentage points in ELA (69% versus 24%) and 31 points in math (49% versus 18%). Grade-level results show an important difference: ELA was nearly even in grades 7 and 8, at 70% and 68%, while math was much higher in grade 8 than grade 7, at 69% versus 34%. Grade 8 math was 39 points above the Arizona rate of 30%; grade 7 math was 7 points above its state rate of 27%. The school’s all-grades ELA advantage over Arizona was larger than its all-grades math advantage, but grade 8 math is a notable strength.
SchoolDigger rates Atkinson 82nd of 536 schools, in the 85th percentile with 4 stars, for 2025–26; the district is ranked 242nd of 267, in the 9th percentile with 0 stars. Atkinson’s SchoolDigger position improved by 42 places and 7 percentile points from 2024–25, though those ranking changes do not show that test scores rose. The supplied scores do not establish a multi-year proficiency trend; ELA and math are reported for 2025–26, while science is from 2024–25. Enrollment and the 16:1 ratio are available, but the free/reduced-lunch rate is not reported, and there are no comparable schools for context.
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