Summary:
Zip code 85213 has six elementary schools: five serve PK–6 and Vista Grove serves K–8; five schools report 2025–26 proficiency results, averaging 54% in ELA and 52% in math, compared with state averages of 41% and 33%. The most important takeaway is that these averages hide a wide divide: Field Elementary School is below the state in both subjects, while the other four reporting schools are above it, and results span 31 percentage points in ELA and 38 points in math.
Hale Elementary School and Ishikawa Elementary School tie for the strongest all-grades math results at 65% each—32 points above the state and 13 points above the five-school average—and both score 61% in ELA. Hermosa Vista Elementary School leads all-grades ELA at 63%, 22 points above the state. At the other end, Field scores 32% in ELA and 27% in math, 9 and 6 points below the state, respectively. Grade-level results add another consideration: Highland Arts Elementary leads fifth-grade ELA at 73% and math at 80%.
SchoolDigger rankings also place Hale and Ishikawa near the top: Hale ranks 121st of 900 schools (87th percentile, 4 stars), and Ishikawa ranks 140th (84th percentile, 4 stars); Field ranks 594th (34th percentile, 2 stars). Across the five PK–6 schools, the average SchoolDigger percentile rose from 68 in 2023–24 to 70 in 2025–26, a 2-point increase, but the pattern was mixed: Field rose 8 points and Highland Arts 7, while Hermosa Vista fell 6. Ratios do not neatly match score order: Ishikawa has 18.7 students per teacher, Hale 15.1, and Field 15.8. Vista Grove’s current test scores are suppressed, and free/reduced-lunch figures are unavailable for all six schools.
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