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Best High Schools in Zip Code 85233

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Summary:

ZIP code 85233 has one listed high school, Mesquite High School, serving grades 8–12 and enrolling 1,303 students. Its 2025–2026 all-grades ELA proficiency was 41%, matching the state, and its mathematics proficiency was 35%, 2 points above the state; both results were 17 points below Gilbert Unified District. The clearest relative strength is graduation: 91% of students graduated, 11 percentage points above the state rate.

There is no second listed school to compare for a local top or bottom, so Mesquite’s results are best understood against state and district figures. Its 11th-grade AASA results were above the state in both subjects: ELA proficiency was 41%, versus 38% statewide, and mathematics was 35%, versus 31%. However, both were below district results—by 8 points in ELA and 14 in mathematics. Graduation was also just below the district’s 92% rate, by 1 point. A weaker result appears in 11th-grade science: Mesquite’s 15% proficiency was 4 points below the state and 6 below the district. That science result is from 2024–2025, unlike the 2025–2026 AASA results.

SchoolDigger’s rankings show a drop followed by little change: Mesquite moved from the 60th percentile in 2022–2023 to the 44th in 2023–2024, then rose to the 45th in 2024–2025. Its latest SchoolDigger listing is rank 148 of 271 schools and 2 stars; these are rankings and ratings, not test-score percentages. The school reports 17.8 students per teacher. The data do not show multiple years of comparable test scores, and 8th-grade ELA and mathematics results are suppressed, so they cannot establish a proficiency trend or comparison for those grades.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking ()				Ranking ()				AASA English Language Arts (2026)			AASA Mathematics (2026)			Per Pupil Expenditures (2025)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Directly certified (2024-25)	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score ()	Statewide Rank ()	State Percentile ()	SchoolDigger Rating ()	Average Standard Score ()	Statewide Rank ()	State Percentile ()	Rank Change from Previous Year	AASA English Language Arts 8th Grade	AASA English Language Arts 11th Grade	AASA English Language Arts All Grades	AASA Mathematics 8th Grade	AASA Mathematics 11th Grade	AASA Mathematics All Grades	Per Pupil Expenditures: Total	Personnel Spending from Federal Funds	Non-Personnel Spending from Federal Funds	Sub-total from Federal Funds	Personnel Spending from State and Local Funds	Non-Personnel from State and Local Funds	Sub-total Spending from State and Local Funds
Mesquite High School	Public	8-12	500 S McQueen Rd	Gilbert	85233	Maricopa County	Gilbert Unified District	No	(n/a)	No	No	(480) 632-4750	1,303	73	17.8	27.6%	520 (39.9%)	95 (7.3%)	517 (39.7%)	41 (3.1%)	47 (3.6%)	5 (0.4%)	78 (6.0%)								(n/a)		41.0	41.0		35.0	35.0	$9,020	$49	$06	$55	$8,247	$717	$8,965
EVIT - Mesquite High School	Public	9-12	500 S McQueen Rd	Gilbert	85233	Maricopa County	East Valley Institute of Technology	No	(n/a)	No	No	(480) 461-4000	0			—	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()								(n/a)

Cities Near Zip Code 85233

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Gilbert	0.81 mi	81	13^th
Mesa	1.83 mi	164	41^st
Chandler	1.96 mi	72	22^nd
Phoenix	2.36 mi	494	52^nd
Tempe	2.43 mi	57	42^nd

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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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