Best High Schools in Zip Code 85396

High schools in zip code 85396 are represented by one school, Verrado High School, which serves grades 9–12 and enrolls 2,012 students. Its 2025–26 proficiency results are above Arizona’s statewide rates in every reported subject and grade grouping, while its 2024–25 graduation rate is also well above the state rate. The most important finding is that Verrado’s reported academic and graduation results are consistently higher than the state comparisons.

With only one school listed, there is no meaningful local top-to-bottom comparison; Verrado is the area’s only option in this data. Its strongest state-relative result is graduation: 93%, compared with 80% statewide, a 13-point advantage, though it is 1 point below its district’s 94%. Proficiency is also higher than the state in every reported comparison: all-grades ELA is 44% versus 41%, and math is 37% versus 33%; in 11th grade, ELA is 44% versus 38% and math is 37% versus 31%. The 2024–25 11th-grade science result is 20%, just 1 point above the state’s 19%. All-grades results average a 4-point advantage over the state, while 11th-grade ELA and math average a 6-point advantage.

SchoolDigger’s relative ranking rose in the latest listed year, but the available scores do not establish a year-to-year proficiency trend. The school ranked 105 of 256 Arizona schools in 2025–26, at the 59th percentile with 3 stars; the prior year it ranked 151 of 271, at the 44th percentile—a gain of 46 rank places and 15 percentile points. Its earlier 2023–24 standing was 135 of 270, at the 50th percentile. These rankings offer statewide context, not a comparison with other schools in the zip code, and the number of ranked schools varies by year. Verrado’s student–teacher ratio is 21.7, and its free/reduced-lunch rate is not provided; neither figure can be compared with another local school here.