Summary:
Zip code 85202 has one middle school, Rhodes Junior High School, serving grades 7–9 and enrolling 599 students; its reported student–teacher ratio is 18.7. In 2025–2026, 26% of students were proficient in all-grades English language arts (ELA), compared with 12% in mathematics. Both results were below the state figures—41% in ELA and 33% in math—but the most important finding is the larger shortfall in all-grades math: 21 percentage points below the state.
There is no top or bottom school within the ZIP code to compare, since Rhodes is the only school listed. It was below Mesa Unified District and the state in every reported subject and grade comparison. ELA is relatively stronger: Rhodes was 15 points below the state in all-grades ELA, versus 21 points below in all-grades math. The grade-level results show a less favorable picture in eighth grade, especially in math: Rhodes was 10% proficient in grade 8 math, compared with 30% statewide, a 20-point gap. In grade 7 math, the gap was 13 points (14% versus 27%).
Rhodes’s SchoolDigger ranking percentile rose from 8 in 2024–2025 to 13 in 2025–2026, but remains near the lower end of the statewide distribution; its 2023–2024 percentile was 12. SchoolDigger rates the district 2 stars and ranks it 157 out of 267 districts, at the 41st percentile. Rhodes’s 18.7 student–teacher ratio and 599-student enrollment offer context, but do not distinguish it from another local school. Proficiency results are available for only one year, so they do not show whether academic results are improving over time; the list also provides no free/reduced-lunch rate.
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