Summary:
ZIP code 85298 has six elementary schools: five serve prekindergarten through grade 6, while Bridges serves kindergarten through grade 6; all include grades 3–6. Across the six schools, average proficiency is 75% in ELA and 72% in math, compared with 41% and 33% statewide, and every school is above the state in both all-grades subjects. Results nevertheless vary substantially within the area, with a 25-point ELA range and a 28-point math range. The clearest standout is Weinberg Gifted Academy, which leads across the subjects and grades shown.
Weinberg has the highest all-grades results—91% in ELA and 87% in math—leading the next-highest school, Bridges Elementary School, by 14 and 8 points. Weinberg also leads fifth-grade science at 93%; Bridges is second at 72%. At the other end, Riggs Elementary has the lowest all-grades ELA and math scores, 66% and 59%, while Charlotte Patterson Elementary has the lowest fifth-grade science result, 53%. Patterson also stands out in grade 3 ELA at 79%, second only to Weinberg. In SchoolDigger’s 2025–26 statewide rankings, Weinberg is fourth of 900 schools, followed by Bridges at 31st; Riggs ranks 152nd.
SchoolDigger’s average percentile for these schools rose from 89 in 2023–24 to 93 in 2025–26, after reaching 94 the year before. The overall three-year direction is upward, though not every school improved in the latest year: Riggs fell from the 89th to the 83rd percentile and Robert J.C. Rice Elementary School from the 93rd to the 91st, while Patterson and Chandler Traditional Academy–Freedom improved. Results also differ by grade: Riggs’ grade 3 math score is 37%, one point below the state, despite its all-grades math result being above the state. Student–teacher ratios range from 15.9 at Chandler Traditional Academy–Freedom to 18.5 at Weinberg, which has the highest proficiency scores; ratios alone do not predict the results shown. Free/reduced-lunch figures are unavailable for these schools.
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