Summary:
ZIP code 85364 has five middle schools, all serving grades 6–8, with reported results that can be compared across the same grade span. Across the five schools, average proficiency was 27% in ELA, compared with 41% statewide, and 15% in math, compared with 33% statewide. Every school’s ELA result was higher than its math result. The most important area-wide finding is that math is the sharper shortfall: the average was 18 points below the state result, versus 14 points below in ELA.
Centennial Middle School stands out at the top, with 34% proficiency in ELA and 23% in math—the highest results in both subjects. It leads the next-highest school by 6 points in ELA and 7 points in math. At the other end, Fourth Avenue Junior High School has the lowest results, at 20% in ELA and 7% in math; its math result is 6 points below the next-lowest. Eighth-grade science results are closer together: R Pete Woodard Junior High School and Crane Middle School lead at 21%, while Centennial has 17% and Gila Vista Junior High School 16%; all are below the state’s 30%.
SchoolDigger’s average statewide ranking percentile across these schools slipped from 20 in 2024–25 to 18 in 2025–26, but schools moved in different directions: Centennial stayed at 36, Woodard fell from 25 to 14, Crane fell from 23 to 17, while Gila Vista rose from 11 to 16 and Fourth Avenue from 3 to 6. Grade-level results add useful detail: Centennial’s eighth-grade ELA was 35%, 8 points above the next-highest result, and its eighth-grade math was 29%, close to the state’s 30%. Enrollment and student-teacher ratios do not show a simple performance pattern: Centennial has the largest enrollment, 646, while Fourth Avenue has the smallest, 364, and the lowest ratio, 17.1; Gila Vista has the highest ratio, 24.8. Science results are available for four schools, and Fourth Avenue’s grade-specific math results were suppressed.
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