Best Public Schools in Zip Code 85382

ZIP code 85382 has nine listed schools: six elementary schools serving PK–8 and three schools labeled high schools; seven are part of Peoria Unified School District. Across the six PK–8 schools, average proficiency is 54% in ELA and 48% in math, compared with Arizona averages of 41% and 33%. The most important area-wide finding is that all six PK–8 schools score above the state in both all-grades subjects.

Sunset Heights Elementary School leads the PK–8 group in ELA, with 59% proficient—18 percentage points above the state—while Apache Elementary School leads in math at 54%, 21 points above the state. For grade 8, Sunrise Mountain High School stands out with 94% in ELA and 97% in math, versus state results of 39% and 30%. The clearest low-score pocket is at Desert Harbor Elementary School: its grade-5 ELA and math results are 25% and 19%, below the state’s 38% in each subject. Among the high-school measures, Student Choice High School has a 28% graduation rate, 52 percentage points below the state’s 80%.

SchoolDigger ranks Sunset Heights highest among the six PK–8 schools, at the 74th percentile among 900 schools. Across the seven Peoria Unified schools, their average SchoolDigger percentile fell from 70 to 66 between 2023–24 and 2025–26; Apache improved by 11 percentile points, while Sunset Heights and Sunrise Mountain each fell by 13. Student–teacher ratios among the PK–8 schools range from 11.7 to 21.2, but a lower ratio does not consistently line up with higher scores: Coyote Hills Elementary School has the lowest ratio and middle-of-the-group results. Comparisons are strongest among the six PK–8 schools; schools serving different grade spans are harder to compare, and suppressed test scores for Skyline D5 and Student Choice are unknown, not zero.