Best Elementary Schools in Zip Code 85201

Seven elementary schools are listed in ZIP code 85201: six in Mesa Unified District and one charter school. Most serve pre-K through grade 6, while Kerr Center for Agriscience and Concordia Charter School serve through grade 8. Across the seven schools, the average all-grade result is 27% in English language arts (ELA), compared with 41% statewide, and 21% in math, compared with 33% statewide. Results vary within the ZIP code, but the most important finding is that every school is below the state result in both subjects.

Concordia Charter School leads all-grade ELA at 35%, 6 points above the next-highest result, Whitman Elementary School at 29%. Concordia also leads math at 25%, just 1 point above Emerson Elementary School; it remains 6 points below the state in ELA and 8 below in math. At the other end, Whittier Elementary School is lowest in both subjects, with 22% in ELA and 15% in math—19 and 18 points below the state, respectively. Grade-level results add useful distinctions: Kerr Center for Agriscience has the strongest reported fifth-grade ELA result at 43%, while Whittier leads reported third-grade math at 33%, still 5 points below the state. In fifth-grade science, Whitman leads the three schools with results at 26%, 8 points below the state.

SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile rankings rose from 2023–24 to 2025–26 for all five schools with a three-year series except that Whitman’s gain was slight: Webster Elementary School moved from 3 to 31, Kerr from 4 to 27, Eisenhower Center for Innovation from 12 to 23, Emerson from 6 to 15, and Whitman from 16 to 17; their average rose from 8 to 23. This ranking improvement does not show whether proficiency gaps to the state narrowed. School size and student-teacher ratios also do not form a clear pattern: Concordia has 106 students and the top ELA result, while Emerson has 717 students; Kerr has the lowest ratio at 14.0 students per teacher but reports 16% math proficiency. Free/reduced-lunch figures are unavailable, and schools’ grade spans differ, so these comparisons offer a broad guide rather than a complete picture.