Summary:
ZIP code 85203 has one listed middle school, Kino Junior High School, serving grades 7–8 with 805 students in Mesa Unified District. Its 2025–26 all-grades results are below state and district rates in both subjects: 20% of students are proficient in ELA, compared with 41% statewide and 39% in the district; in math, the rates are 5%, 33%, and 31%, respectively. Math is the school’s largest shortfall, with proficiency 28 percentage points below the state rate.
Kino is the only local school listed, so it is the only option to consider in this ZIP code; its results stand out for being below both benchmarks in every available subject-and-grade comparison. In grade 7 ELA, 22% are proficient versus 43% statewide, a 21-point gap; in grade 8 ELA, 16% compare with 39%, a 23-point gap. The 2024–25 grade 8 science result is also low: 8% at Kino versus 30% statewide and 26% in the district. SchoolDigger ranks Kino 520th of 536 Arizona middle schools, in the 3rd percentile, placing it near the bottom statewide.
SchoolDigger’s ranking has improved slightly in the latest year, though Kino remains near the bottom: it moved from 546th of 552 schools (1st percentile) in 2024–25 to 520th of 536 (3rd percentile) in 2025–26, an improvement of 26 places and 2 percentile points. In 2023–24, it ranked 541st of 550 (2nd percentile), so its latest percentile standing is 1 point higher than then. Kino’s reported student–teacher ratio is 20.3, but there is no supplied free/reduced-lunch rate; with only one year of scores and grade 8 math suppressed, the available data cannot establish proficiency trends or support comparisons with similar local schools.
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