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Best Public Schools in Zip Code 85053


At a glance
16
Schools
6,332
Students
13
Districts
Top rankedGreenway High School97th of 256 Arizona high schools
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Biggest riser
Imagine Surprise Middle up 66 spots statewide this year
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Smallest classes
Imagine Surprise Middle 12.4 students per teacher
SchoolDigger ratings
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1★
7 schools without a SchoolDigger rating (too few tested students)
Summary:

Schools in ZIP code 85053 include 14 schools—eight elementary, three middle, and three high schools—offering options from elementary through high school. Results vary widely: among the 11 schools with reported results in both subjects, the average was 36% in ELA and 30% in math, compared with 41% and 33% statewide. The most important takeaway is that the area’s average results are below state levels, but individual schools differ substantially.

Greenway High School leads the reported all-grades ELA results at 49%, 8 points above the state, while Imagine Coolidge Elementary leads math at 48%, 15 points above the state; it also has the second-highest ELA result, 47%. At the lower end, Sunrise Elementary School reports the lowest known results: 18% in ELA and 16% in math, respectively 23 and 17 points below state results. Among middle schools, Imagine East Mesa Middle stands out with 45% in ELA and 35% in math, and results above the state in both subjects in grades 7 and 8. High-school outcomes also differ: Greenway’s graduation rate was 94% in 2024–25, compared with 29% at Ombudsman - Charter West.

SchoolDigger rankings show improvement for some schools over the comparable 2023–24 to 2025–26 period: Imagine Coolidge rose from the 32nd to the 61st percentile, and Greenway from the 57th to the 62nd; Imagine East Mesa Elementary declined from the 36th to the 22nd percentile. Among nine schools with comparable histories, the average ranking rose from the 44th to the 47th percentile over those two years, but was nearly unchanged from 2024–25 to 2025–26. Enrollment and student–teacher ratios do not show a consistent relationship with results: Imagine Coolidge has a 22.2 ratio and strong scores, while Sunrise has a 14.8 ratio and the lowest known scores. Results are suppressed for some schools, and free/reduced-lunch figures are unavailable, so those comparisons cannot be made.

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Arizona Department of Education.

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