Summary:
ZIP code 85281 has two middle schools serving grades 6–8: Geneva Epps Mosley Middle School and New School for the Arts Middle School. In 2025–26, their English language arts (ELA) results ranged from 16% to 50% proficient, compared with 41% statewide; in math, both schools were below the state’s 33% result. The most important overall finding is that math is weak at both schools relative to the state, while ELA sharply separates them.
New School for the Arts Middle School stands out in ELA: 50% of students were proficient, 9 points above the state and 34 points above Geneva Epps Mosley Middle School, where 16% were proficient. The grade-level results show the same pattern: New School led Geneva by 28 points in seventh grade (46% versus 18%) and 36 points in eighth grade (52% versus 16%). New School also had the higher math result, at 18% versus Geneva’s 4%, but both fell short of the state. Geneva’s 2024–25 eighth-grade science result was 14%, 16 points below the state’s 30%.
SchoolDigger’s rank histories move in different directions, but do not show a shared trend: Geneva’s statewide percentile rank fell from 7 in 2023–24 to 0 in 2025–26, while New School’s rose from 53 in 2020–21 to 61 in 2021–22 and stayed at 61 in 2022–23. Geneva enrolls 694 students, compared with 75 at New School; its student–teacher ratio is 13, while New School’s ratio is not reported. The available information does not establish why results differ: the rank histories cover different years, New School’s science result and some grade-level scores are unavailable, and free/reduced-lunch rates are not reported.
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