Summary:
Zip code 85547 has one middle school, Rim Country Middle School, serving grades 6–8 in the Payson area. In 2025–26, 30% of students were proficient in ELA, compared with 41% statewide, and 21% were proficient in math, compared with 33% statewide. The school was also 1 point below the Payson Unified District in ELA and 2 points below in math. The most important takeaway is that neither all-grade result reaches the state rate.
There is no within-area top or bottom school to compare: Rim Country is the only middle school in the list. Its clearest bright spot is eighth-grade math, where proficiency was 28%, just 2 points below the state’s 30%; sixth- and seventh-grade math were 19% and 17%, respectively, 11 and 10 points below state rates. ELA results were more consistent across grades, ranging from 28% to 33%, but remained 9 to 13 points below state rates. The school’s eighth-grade science result was 22% in 2024–25, versus 30% statewide. Overall, the grade-level results show a stronger relative position in eighth-grade math, not a broad advantage in achievement.
The available test results do not show whether proficiency is improving or declining over time. SchoolDigger ranked Rim Country at the 28th percentile in 2025–26, with 1 star; its ranking was at the 25th percentile in 2024–25 and the 33rd percentile in 2023–24, so the latest percentile is 3 points above the prior year but 5 points below 2023–24. These rankings compare the school with changing groups and do not establish a change in test proficiency. The student-teacher ratio was 16.3 in 2024–25, and the free/reduced-lunch figure is blank; with one school, these figures cannot distinguish it from local peers.
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