Summary:
ZIP code 85234 has three high schools—Gilbert High School, Gilbert Classical Academy 7-12, and Premier Prep Online Academy—all serving grades 7–12 and enrolling 3,208 students combined. Their latest all-grades results vary widely: ELA proficiency ranges from 31% to 91%, and math from 20% to 83%, so an area-wide average would hide large differences. The clearest overall standout for families comparing the reported results is Gilbert Classical.
Gilbert Classical leads the group in both subjects, with 91% proficiency in ELA and 83% in math—50 points above the state in each. Gilbert High is in the middle at 51% in both subjects, 10 points above the state in ELA and 18 points above in math. Premier Prep is lowest, at 31% in ELA and 20% in math, respectively 10 and 13 points below state results. SchoolDigger ranks Classical first of 256 schools and gives it five stars; Gilbert High ranks 92nd of 256 and has three stars. These are SchoolDigger rankings, not state ratings.
SchoolDigger’s rankings improved for both district schools, though that does not establish that test proficiency increased. Gilbert High moved from rank 124 of 270 in 2023–24 to 92 of 256 in 2025–26, while Classical moved from sixth to first; their supplied percentile rankings rose from 54 to 64 and from 98 to 100. Grade-level results also offer a useful distinction: Gilbert High edges Classical in seventh-grade math, 78% to 70%, while Classical leads in eighth-grade ELA and math, 89% to 78% and 81% to 63%, and in both 11th-grade subjects. Ratios are 18 students per teacher at Classical, 19.4 at Gilbert High, and 30.3 at Premier Prep; Premier is also an online academy, so format differs as well as size. Proficiency figures cover one year only, so they do not show whether test results are rising or falling.
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