Schools in Zip Code 85638

Zip code 85638 has three schools in Tombstone Unified District, serving students from prekindergarten through grade 12: two schools serve PK–8 and one serves grades 9–12. Enrollment ranges from 151 to 461 students. The clearest same-grade contrast is in fourth-grade English language arts: Walter J Meyer School has 77% proficiency, compared with 38% at Huachuca City School, a 39-point gap.

Tombstone High School leads the schools in All Grades results, with 48% proficiency in ELA and 31% in math; it is 7 points above the state in ELA but 2 points below in math. Huachuca City is lowest in both subjects, at 23% in ELA and 14% in math—18 and 19 points below state results, respectively. Walter J Meyer is between the two in All Grades scores, with 35% in ELA and 21% in math, both below state results. Math is a challenge across all three schools, while science is a bright spot: each school exceeds its grade-matched state result, by 24 points at Walter, 14 at Huachuca City, and 8 at Tombstone.

SchoolDigger’s latest rankings place Tombstone at 108 of 256 high schools, Walter at 502 of 1,245 elementary schools, and Huachuca City at 809 of 1,245. Earlier SchoolDigger percentile histories moved in different directions: Walter gained 6 points from 2020–21 to 2022–23, while Huachuca City fell 23 points; these rankings are not test-score trends. Walter also has fewer students and a slightly lower student-teacher ratio than Huachuca City—151 students and 15.1 students per teacher, versus 262 and 15.4—alongside higher All Grades proficiency. Results across different grade spans are not strictly comparable, and these differences do not establish why scores vary.