Summary:
Zip code 85212 has one middle school, Highland Junior High School, serving grades 6–8, with 961 students. Its 2025–2026 all-grades proficiency rates were 61% in English language arts (ELA) and 56% in math, compared with 41% and 33% statewide; its grade 8 science rate was 50% in 2024–2025, versus 30% statewide. The most important finding is that Highland is above state proficiency rates in every reported subject.
Highland is the only local school in the data, so there is no other area school to rank above or below it. Compared with the state, Highland’s strongest reported advantage is in grade 7 math: 56% proficient, 29 percentage points above the state’s 27%. Its all-grades math rate is 23 points above the state, while all-grades ELA is 20 points higher. The pattern also holds in grade 8: Highland is 25 points above the state in math and 20 points above in ELA. Against the closer comparison of Gilbert Unified District, however, all-grades results are only 3 points higher in ELA and 4 points higher in math. Grade 7 ELA matches the district at 63%, while grade 8 ELA is 7 points higher at Highland.
SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking history improved, though it does not show whether test scores rose: Highland moved from 124th of 550 schools (77th percentile) in 2023–2024 to 66th of 536 (88th percentile) in 2025–2026, a gain of 58 ranking places and 11 percentile points. Its percentile stayed at 88th from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while its rank improved from 69th to 66th. The reported student–teacher ratio is 18.4, and no free/reduced-lunch rate is provided. Because the data include only one school and do not provide multi-year test scores, they cannot support comparisons among area schools or identify score trends.
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