Summary:
Zip code 85251 has six elementary schools serving grades PK–8: three serve PK–6, one serves K–6, and two serve K–8. In 2025–26, the schools’ average all-grades proficiency was about 37% in English language arts (ELA) and 33% in math, compared with state results of 41% and 33%. The most important finding is the wide difference among schools, especially in math, where results span 39 percentage points.
Navajo Elementary School leads the all-grades results, with 50% proficient in ELA and 56% in math—15 and 23 points above the state, respectively. At the other end, Hirsch Academy A Challenge Foundation has 29% in ELA and 17% in math, 12 and 16 points below the state. Hirsch’s fifth-grade science result is a notable exception: its 49% is the highest among the four schools with results and 15 points above the state. Grade-specific leaders also differ: Navajo leads fourth-grade ELA and math, Pima Elementary School leads fifth-grade math, and Echo Canyon K-8 leads reported eighth-grade ELA.
Recent SchoolDigger statewide ranking percentiles show modest average improvement, but not a consistent upward trend: among five schools with three years of results, the average rose from about the 49th percentile in 2023–24 to the 51st in 2025–26, after reaching the 52nd in between. Champion San Tan gained 8 percentile points and Champion Chandler gained 5, while Echo Canyon fell 2 and Pima had no net change. Among the K–8 schools, Echo Canyon’s ELA result of 39% is higher than the Champion schools’ 31% and 33%; its 30% math result matches San Tan and exceeds Chandler’s 21%. Enrollment and ratios do not follow a simple achievement pattern: Hirsch has 160 students and a 12.3 student–teacher ratio, while Navajo has 473 students and leads both all-grades subjects. Because schools serve different grade spans, same-grade comparisons are more useful than all-grades totals.
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