Summary:
Zip code 85204 has one listed middle school, Taylor Junior High School, which serves grades 7–9 and enrolls 908 students in Mesa Unified District. Its 2025–26 results show that students were more often proficient in ELA than in math, but the school was below Arizona in every reported comparison. The clearest concern is grade 8 math: 8% of students were proficient, 22 percentage points below Arizona and 14 points below Mesa Unified.
Because Taylor is the only school in the list, it is both the area’s highest- and lowest-scoring school; that does not provide a meaningful comparison among schools. Against state results, its closest mark was grade 7 ELA, at 36% proficient versus 43% statewide, a 7-point gap. Its all-grades ELA result was 30%, compared with 41% in Arizona, while all-grades math was 13% versus 33% statewide. ELA is a relative strength: Taylor’s ELA result was 17 points higher than its math result, though it still trailed the state by 11 points in ELA and 20 points in math. Grade 8 gaps were wider than grade 7 gaps in both subjects, especially math.
SchoolDigger gives Taylor 1 star and ranks it 418th of 536 statewide schools, in the 22nd percentile for 2025–26. Its percentile was 21 in 2024–25 and 24 in 2023–24, so the latest figure is up 1 point from the prior year but down 2 points from 2023–24; these ranking changes do not show whether proficiency improved. The reported student–teacher ratio is 19.6, and no free/reduced-lunch rate is listed. Because this list has one school and no prior-year proficiency results, it cannot show school-to-school variation or test-score trends.
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