Summary:
ZIP code 85501 has two high schools: Globe High School, serving grades 9–12 with 532 students, and Liberty High School, serving grades 7–12 with 76 students. Liberty’s current AASA proficiency results are suppressed, so the available scores cannot show which school leads in ELA or math. The clearest academic finding is that Globe is ahead of its district but remains below Arizona in both subjects: its 2025–26 ELA proficiency was 27%, versus 18% in the district and 41% statewide; math was 18%, versus 10% and 33%.
The schools stand out differently on dropout and graduation measures. Globe’s 2024–25 dropout rate was 4%, about 2 percentage points below Arizona’s 5%; Liberty’s was 30%, about 25 points above the state, a 26-point gap between the schools. Liberty’s 2024–25 graduation rate was 37%, compared with 80% statewide—a 43-point shortfall. Globe’s reported graduation rate was 88% in 2023–24, so it is from a different year and cannot be compared directly with Liberty’s 2024–25 result. Globe’s ELA and math results were also 14 and 15 points below Arizona, respectively, despite being 9 and 8 points above the Globe Unified District.
SchoolDigger’s historical percentile figures show a recent rebound for Globe, but not a sustained rise: it went from 33 in 2022–23 to 14 in 2024–25, then up to 28 in 2025–26, still 5 points below its earlier figure. Liberty’s reported SchoolDigger percentile rose from 14 in 2020–21 to 44 in 2022–23. The smaller school and lower student–teacher ratio do not align with a lower dropout rate in this pair: Liberty has 76 students and a ratio of 7, while Globe has 532 students and a ratio of 23.1; their dropout rates were 30% and 4%, respectively. These figures describe the schools but do not show that size or ratio explains the difference.
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