Best Elementary Schools in Zip Code 85543

ZIP code 85543 has two elementary schools: Pima Elementary School and Discovery Plus Academy, with reported grade-level results spanning grades 3–6. In 2025–26, their simple two-school average was 53% proficient in English language arts (ELA) and 41% in math, compared with state results of 41% and 33%. Those averages hide a major split: the two schools have very different achievement profiles, so the ZIP-code average does not describe either school particularly well.

Discovery Plus Academy is the clear achievement standout, while Pima Elementary School is below the state on both all-grades measures. Discovery recorded 74% in ELA and 55% in math—33 and 22 percentage points above the state, respectively. Pima recorded 31% in ELA and 27% in math, or 10 and 6 points below the state. The gap between the schools is also evident in shared grades: Discovery led by 40 points in grade 3 ELA, 40 in grade 4 ELA, 45 in grade 5 ELA, 36 in grade 4 math, and 41 in grade 5 math. Pima’s grade 5 results were close to state levels—37% in ELA versus 38% statewide and 35% in math versus 38%—but its grade 6 results were lower, at 26% in ELA and 19% in math.

SchoolDigger rankings show the schools moving in opposite directions in statewide standing: Pima shifted from 577th of 912 elementary schools in 2023–24 to 682nd of 900 in 2025–26, while Discovery improved from 102nd to 58th. Their SchoolDigger percentiles changed from 37 to 24 for Pima and from 89 to 94 for Discovery. Discovery is smaller, with 119 students and a 14.8 student-teacher ratio, compared with 500 students and a 16.4 ratio at Pima; these figures describe the schools but do not explain their results. Pima’s fifth-grade science proficiency was 28%, 6 points below the state’s 34%; no Discovery science result is supplied. Historical proficiency scores and usable free/reduced-lunch rates are not available, so the ranking changes do not establish a trend in test scores.