Summary:
Zip code 85042 has 11 listed schools—six elementary schools, three high schools and two alternative schools—offering families a mix of school types. Across the nine schools with reported all-grades results, the average is 23% proficient in English language arts (ELA), compared with 41% statewide, and 16% in math, compared with 33% statewide. The clearest area-wide finding is that average proficiency is substantially below state levels in both subjects: 18 percentage points in ELA and 17 points in math.
Desert Marigold School stands out in ELA: its 40% all-grades result is just 1 point below the state and 19 points above the other schools’ average; its 7th-grade score is 66%, versus 43% statewide. Cloves C Campbell Senior Elementary School leads Roosevelt Elementary District peers C O Greenfield School and T G Barr School in all-grades ELA and math, and its 5th-grade science score of 37% is above the state’s 34%. At the other end, South Pointe High School has the lowest or tied-lowest all-grades scores—11% in both subjects—and a 2024–25 graduation rate of 40%, compared with 80% statewide. Desert Marigold also leads in 8th-grade science, with 54% proficient versus 30% statewide.
SchoolDigger rankings show mixed movement, not a consistent area-wide rise: the average percentile for four schools with rankings in all three latest years fell from 16 in 2023–24 to 11 in 2025–26. Campbell dropped from the 54th to the 28th percentile, while Barr rose from the 5th percentile in 2020–21 to the 41st in 2024–25, despite current scores of 14% in ELA and 18% in math. Student–teacher ratios range from 12.0 to 21.9, but the figures do not suggest a simple relationship with results: Campbell’s ratio is 16.4, compared with Greenfield’s 20.5, while Barr’s is 14.8. Income context cannot be compared because free/reduced-lunch figures are blank; school grade spans differ, and results for two schools are suppressed.
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