Best Public Schools in Zip Code 85339

The 13 schools listed for 85339 include 10 elementary schools, two high schools and one alternative school, spanning elementary through high-school grades; 2025–26 all-grades results are listed for 12 of them. Those 12 schools average 33% proficiency in ELA and 26% in math, below state results of 41% and 33%. The biggest takeaway is how widely results differ between schools: Vista Del Sur Accelerated Academy is far ahead, while several schools are well below state results.

Vista Del Sur Accelerated Academy leads the reported schools with 79% in ELA and 69% in math—38 and 36 percentage points above state results. It also leads the elementary schools with reported science scores, at 64% in fifth grade and 78% in eighth grade. Paseo Pointe Dual Language Academy is second in ELA and math, at 54% and 40%; Vista leads it by 25 and 29 points. At the bottom, Country Gardens Charter School has the lowest all-grades results, 11% in ELA and 9% in math. Laveen Leadership Academy at Cheatham Farms is also low, at 20% and 12%.

SchoolDigger’s rankings show mixed movement, not a broad upward or downward trend: among 10 schools with rankings in both 2023–24 and 2025–26, the average rose from the 34th to the 35th percentile, with five schools rising and five falling. SchoolDigger rates Vista five stars and ranks it at the 92nd percentile; Paseo ranks at the 65th, while Leadership ranks at the 2nd. Ratios alone do not distinguish the stronger results: Vista and Paseo have ratios near 20 students per teacher, while Leadership’s is 16.7. The two high schools are close in proficiency—Betty Fairfax High School leads Cesar Chavez High School by 2 points in both ELA and math—but both are below state proficiency rates. Their graduation rates, 82% and 84%, were above the state’s 80%, and their dropout rates were below the state rate.