Summary:
ZIP code 85501 has one middle school, High Desert Middle School, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 390 students. In 2025–26, its all-grades proficiency was 19% in ELA and 9% in math, compared with 41% and 33% statewide; the most important finding is that results were below the state in both subjects, with a larger gap in math.
High Desert is both the highest- and lowest-scoring school in this list because it is the only one, so there is no meaningful local school-to-school comparison. ELA was 1 point above the 18% district result, while math was 1 point below the district’s 10%; compared with Arizona, the school was 22 points lower in ELA and 24 points lower in math. Within ELA, grade 8 was closest to the state, at 23% versus 39% (a 16-point gap), while grade 7 had the largest gap, at 14% versus 43% (29 points). Grade 6 ELA was 17% versus 41%, a 24-point gap. Grade 8 math was 16% versus 30%, and grade 6 and 7 school math results are not reported.
SchoolDigger’s ranking improved in position over the three reported years, but the latest percentile remained low: High Desert ranked 538th of 550 schools (2nd percentile) in 2023–24, 516th of 552 (7th percentile) in 2024–25, and 499th of 536 (7th percentile) in 2025–26. The school’s student–teacher ratio was 19.9 in 2024–25. Because the list includes only one school and does not provide multiple years of test-score results, the ranking movement cannot show whether scores improved or how the school compares with similar schools.
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