Summary:
ZIP code 85120 has two middle schools serving grades 6–8: Cactus Canyon Junior High and Imagine Superstition Middle. In 2025–26, their all-grades AASA proficiency results were fairly close to each other: the gap was 4 points in ELA and 3 points in math. But both schools were substantially below Arizona’s results: their average was 20% in ELA and about 13% in math, compared with 41% and 33% statewide. The most important finding for families comparing these schools is that neither comes close to the state proficiency level in either subject.
The all-grades leader changes by subject: Cactus Canyon leads in ELA, with 22% proficient versus Imagine Superstition’s 18%, while Imagine leads in math, 14% to 11%. In the available eighth-grade comparison, Imagine is ahead in both subjects: 28% versus 18% in ELA and 22% versus 15% in math. Even Imagine’s eighth-grade results remain below Arizona’s 39% in ELA and 30% in math; Cactus Canyon is farther behind, at 18% and 15%. Cactus Canyon’s eighth-grade science result was also below the state: 14% versus 30% in 2024–25.
SchoolDigger rankings offer some additional context, but they do not show a year-by-year trend in test scores. Cactus Canyon’s latest ranking is 501st of 536 Arizona middle schools, at the 7th percentile with 0 stars in 2025–26; Imagine Superstition’s is 429th of 552, at the 22nd percentile with 1 star in 2024–25. Across the listed ranking years, Cactus Canyon’s percentile fell from 10 to 7, while Imagine’s fell from 51 to 22. Imagine is smaller, with 158 students and a 14.3 student-teacher ratio, compared with Cactus Canyon’s 527 students and 18.5 ratio; those differences do not correspond to one school leading in every subject. Imagine’s sixth- and seventh-grade scores are suppressed, and its ranking year differs from Cactus Canyon’s latest.
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