Summary:
ZIP code 85364 has seven high schools serving grades 9–12, including three large schools in the Yuma Union High School District and four smaller, alternative or online programs. The academic results available for the three large schools are below state proficiency rates, even though all three report graduation rates above the state rate. The most important finding for families comparing reported test results is that even the local leader, Cibola High School, remains below state proficiency in both ELA and math.
Cibola leads the three schools with reported ELA and math results, at 28% and 18%; Kofa High School has 21% and 8%, while Yuma High School has 10% and 5%. Cibola is 13 points below the state in ELA and 15 below in math; Yuma High is 31 and 28 points below. Graduation rates show a different pattern: Kofa, Cibola and Yuma High are at 96%, 96% and 94%, respectively, versus 80% statewide. At the low end, Student Choice High School - Yuma reports 27% graduation and Educational Opportunity Center Charter High School 46%—53 and 34 points below the state rate.
SchoolDigger rankings place Cibola 182nd of 256 Arizona schools (29th percentile, 1 star), Kofa 223rd (13th percentile, 1 star) and Yuma High 243rd (5th percentile, 0 stars); their percentile positions have each improved since 2023–24, by 6 points for Cibola and 3 for each of the others. That ranking movement does not establish that proficiency scores are rising. Student-teacher ratios also vary: 25.1 at Cibola, 22.5 at Kofa and 21.0 at Yuma High, compared with 121.5 at Student Choice and 11.9 at Vista High School, whose graduation rate is 76%. Only three schools have reported 2025–26 ELA and math results, science results are available for two, and missing or suppressed test figures for other schools cannot be treated as scores.
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