Summary:
Zip code 85540 has one listed middle school, Fairbanks Middle School, serving grades 5–8 with 398 students. Its 2025–26 all-grades English language arts (ELA) proficiency rate was 38%, close to Arizona’s 41%; its mathematics rate was 19%, compared with 33% statewide. The clearest concern for families is mathematics: Fairbanks was below the state in every tested grade, with gaps of 11 to 14 percentage points.
Because Fairbanks is the only school listed, there is no meaningful top-or-bottom comparison among local schools; its strongest and weakest results are relative to Arizona. Science was a bright spot in 2024–25: grade 5 proficiency was 35% versus 34% statewide, and grade 8 was 42% versus 30%. ELA varied by grade: Fairbanks was 10 points below Arizona in grade 5, 4 points above in grade 6, and 1 and 2 points below in grades 7 and 8. In math, proficiency was 26% in grade 5, 18% in grade 6, and 16% in both grades 7 and 8, compared with state rates of 38%, 30%, 27%, and 30%, respectively.
The available information does not show whether test scores are improving or declining over time, but SchoolDigger’s relative ranking has recently dipped. Fairbanks held 2 stars each year; its percentile was 41 in 2023–24, rose to 45 in 2024–25, then fell to 39 in 2025–26, when it ranked 326 of 536 Arizona schools. The school’s student–teacher ratio was 9.1 in 2024–25, and reported per-student spending was $7,858 in 2021–22. No free/reduced-lunch percentage is provided, so these figures offer context but do not explain the test results.
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