Schools in Zip Code 85344

ZIP code 85344 has six schools in the Parker Unified School District: three elementary schools, one junior high and two high schools, serving 1,707 students from elementary through high school. Across the reported grade-level results, every ELA, math and science comparison was below the state rate; the gaps ranged from 3 to 23 percentage points. The biggest overall concern is that the shortfalls appear across subjects and schools, while high school completion outcomes differ sharply between the two high schools.

Standouts depend on the subject: Le Pera Elementary School had the highest reported all-grades ELA result at 27%, while Wallace Elementary School led in math at 30%. At the other end, Parker High School had the lowest reported ELA result, 19%, and Le Pera had the lowest reported math result, 13%; each subject’s reported school results spanned 8 to 17 points. The high schools show an even larger contrast in completion: Parker High’s graduation rate was 89%, compared with 59% at Parker Alternative School, while dropout rates were 3% and 17%, respectively. All-grades results are not directly comparable across schools with different grade spans.

SchoolDigger’s rank histories show a mixed picture rather than steady improvement: from 2023–24 to 2024–25, its percentile figures fell 4 points for Parker High, 3 for Wallace Elementary and 10 for Wallace Junior High School; in the next reported entries, Wallace Elementary rose from 12 to 19 and Wallace Junior High from 21 to 23. Those are changes in relative ranking, not test scores. Grade 8 is a bright spot at Wallace Junior High: it was 5 points below the state in ELA and 3 below in math, compared with gaps of 23 and 15 points in grade 6. Ratios range from 14.9 students per teacher at Wallace Junior High to 17.9 at Wallace Elementary, offering no simple pattern alongside results; free/reduced-lunch figures were not provided.