Best High Schools in Zip Code 85128

Zip code 85128 has four high schools serving grades 6–12, with 1,424 students overall: two schools serve grades 9–12 and two serve grades 6–12. Only Coolidge High School and Imagine Prep Coolidge have reported all-grades test results; both are well below state proficiency levels. Their average proficiency is 21% in English language arts (ELA), compared with 41% statewide, and 10% in math, compared with 33% statewide. The clearest area-wide concern is that students at both schools are substantially behind state results in both subjects.

The two schools trade leads, and neither stands out as a clear academic leader: Imagine Prep has 22% ELA proficiency versus Coolidge High’s 20%, while Coolidge High has 12% math proficiency versus Imagine Prep’s 8%. Those differences of 2 and 4 points are small beside the schools’ gaps to the state. Coolidge Alternative Program stands out for weaker reported graduation and dropout outcomes: its 50% graduation rate is 30 points below the state’s 80%, and its 14% dropout rate is 9 points above the state’s 5%. CAVIT - Central Arizona Valley Institute of Technology has no test or graduation results listed, and Coolidge Alternative’s test scores are suppressed.

SchoolDigger’s rank percentiles show different trajectories rather than a shared upward trend: Coolidge High rose from 3 to 16 between 2023–24 and 2025–26, while Imagine Prep ended at 34 in 2022–23 after dipping from 24 to 20; Coolidge Alternative fell from 31 to 6 over that period. Class sizes also vary by school: student–teacher ratios range from 5 at CAVIT to 30 at Coolidge Alternative, with Coolidge High at 19.7 and Imagine Prep at 24.8. Coolidge High is the largest school, with 752 students, compared with 472 at Imagine Prep, but size and ratio do not neatly match their subject-by-subject results.