Summary:
The 85327 middle-school list contains one school, Sonoran Trails Middle School, which serves grades 6–8 and enrolls 615 students in the Cave Creek Unified District. In 2025–26, 55% of students were proficient in ELA and 45% in math, compared with 41% and 33% statewide. But the school was below its district’s 61% ELA and 56% math rates. The most important takeaway is that results are stronger than state averages but trail district averages, especially in math, where the gap is 11 percentage points.
With no other middle school in the list, Sonoran Trails is the only school-level standout; there is no local top-versus-bottom comparison. Its state advantage appears in every reported grade, though it is smaller in grade 8: ELA was 18, 17, and 9 points above state rates in grades 6, 7, and 8, while math was 20, 16, and 10 points above. Within the school, ELA proficiency ranged from 60% in grade 7 to 48% in grade 8, and math from 50% in grade 6 to 40% in grade 8. Grade 8 science was 39% in 2024–25, 9 points above the state rate.
SchoolDigger’s ranking dipped and then recovered, but that history does not show a matching trend in test scores: the school moved from the 76th percentile in 2023–24 to the 62nd in 2024–25, then to the 75th in 2025–26. Its latest SchoolDigger listing is rank 132 of 536 Arizona middle schools and four stars. The reported student-teacher ratio is 19.4; a free/reduced-lunch rate is not supplied. These figures offer context, but the list does not allow comparisons with other area schools, and it does not provide comparable proficiency results across multiple years.
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