Summary:
ZIP code 85118 has one listed school, Peralta Trail Elementary School, serving kindergarten through sixth grade with 282 students and an 18:1 student–teacher ratio. Its 2025–26 all-grades results were 37% in both English language arts and math. The most important finding is that math was 4 points above the state, while ELA was 4 points below; the school exceeded Apache Junction Unified District in both subjects.
There is no meaningful top-or-bottom school comparison within the ZIP code because Peralta Trail is the only school listed. Compared with the district, its all-grades results were 10 points higher in ELA (37% versus 27%) and 17 points higher in math (37% versus 20%). The clearest grade-level concern is fourth-grade ELA: 39% was 8 points below the state’s 47%, though 7 points above the district’s 32%. Across grades 3–5, the school’s average was about 37% in ELA and 37% in math, compared with state averages of about 41% and 39%, respectively. SchoolDigger ranked the school 522nd of 900, at the 42nd percentile, and gave it 2 stars.
SchoolDigger’s relative ranking rose and then fell: the school was at the 47th percentile in 2023–24, the 53rd in 2024–25, and the 42nd in 2025–26. Those rankings do not establish a change in test achievement; the supplied ELA and math results cover only one year. A separate subject offers a positive comparison: in 2024–25, fifth-grade science proficiency was 34%, matching the state and exceeding the district’s 21% by 13 points. Enrollment and the 18:1 ratio add context, but no free/reduced-lunch rate is reported. Because there is only one school and limited year-to-year test data, the figures cannot show how schools compare across the area or whether achievement is trending up or down.
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