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Best Public Schools in Zip Code 85206


At a glance
6
Schools
4,453
Students
2
Districts
2
5-star schools
Top rankedFranklin Junior High School17th of 536 Arizona middle schools
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Biggest riser
Madison Elementary School up 50 spots statewide this year
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Smallest classes
Madison Elementary School 13.3 students per teacher
Summary:

ZIP code 85206 has six schools: four elementary schools, one middle school and one K–12 alternative school, serving students from prekindergarten through grade 12. Across the six schools, the simple average is 50% proficient in ELA and 41% in math, compared with state rates of 41% and 33%; these averages combine different grade spans. Most important, elementary results vary sharply, ranging from 27% to 77% in ELA and from 20% to 74% in math.

Franklin Accelerated Academy - Brimhall Campus leads the elementary schools with 77% in ELA and 74% in math. Those results are 37 points above the next-highest elementary ELA result, Johnson Elementary School’s 40%, and 33 points above the next-highest math result, Madison Elementary School’s 41%. Franklin Junior High School is another standout, with 87% in ELA and 69% in math; in grade 7, its results are 44 and 43 points above state rates, respectively. At the lower end, Wilson Elementary School has the lowest results among the elementary schools, at 27% in ELA and 20% in math. Arizona Connections Academy has the lowest all-grades math result, 12%; its grade 11 ELA result, 40%, is slightly above the state’s 38%.

SchoolDigger gives Franklin Accelerated and Franklin Junior High five stars and places both in the 97th statewide percentile. Its rankings over time show mixed movement: Madison gained 8 percentile points to 49th, Johnson fell 5 points to 47th, and Franklin Accelerated slipped 2 points to 97th between 2023–24 and 2025–26, while Franklin Junior High stayed at 97th. SchoolDigger rankings are relative standings, not year-to-year test-score changes. Enrollment and student–teacher ratios do not offer a simple guide to results: Franklin Accelerated has the largest elementary enrollment, 889, and highest ratio, 24.6, yet leads the group; Madison has the smallest enrollment, 374, and lowest ratio, 13.3, with math above the state rate but ELA below it. Arizona Connections Academy also reports a 73% graduation rate and 13% dropout rate, compared with 80% and 5% statewide.

Ranking:
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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Arizona Department of Education.

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