Schools in Zip Code 85208

ZIP code 85208 has five schools in the Mesa Unified District: four elementary schools serving pre-K through grade 6 and Skyline High School, serving grades 9–12. The clearest pattern is a wide divide among the elementary schools: 2025–26 all-grades ELA proficiency ranges from 23% to 46%, and math from 14% to 45%. The most important finding is that results differ sharply by school, so an area-wide picture can hide very different school experiences.

Patterson Elementary leads the elementary group, with 46% proficient in ELA and 45% in math—5 and 12 points above state rates. Brinton Elementary is also close to state results: 39% in ELA, 2 points below the state, and 33% in math, equal to the state; its fifth-grade science result is also at the state rate, 34%. At the bottom, Stevenson Elementary School has 23% proficiency in ELA and 14% in math, 18 and 19 points below state rates. Jefferson Elementary School falls between them at 28% in ELA and 30% in math. Skyline’s grade 11 results are below state levels in ELA, math, and science by 10, 16, and 9 points, respectively, but its 87% graduation rate is 7 points above the state rate and its 3% dropout rate is 2 points below.

SchoolDigger’s 2023–24 to 2025–26 rankings show improvement for Jefferson, from the 18th to the 29th percentile, and smaller gains for Patterson (56th to 59th) and Stevenson (9th to 10th); Brinton declined from the 46th to the 43rd percentile, while Skyline moved from the 29th to the 27th. These are SchoolDigger rankings, not a measure of year-to-year proficiency change. Results also vary by grade: Patterson’s third-grade math is 63%, 25 points above the state, but its fifth-grade math is 27%, 11 points below. Similar enrollment does not mean similar results: Patterson and Stevenson have 733 and 725 students, yet differ by 23 points in ELA and 31 in math; their student–teacher ratios are 16.4 and 19.0. Brinton is smaller, with 495 students, but its overall results are closer to state rates than Stevenson’s.