Summary:
ZIP code 85638 has two public elementary schools, Huachuca City School and Walter J Meyer School; both serve pre-K through grade 8 in Tombstone Unified District. In the 2025–26 all-grades results, both schools fall short of state proficiency rates in ELA and math. The clearest shared challenge is math: the schools average 18% proficient, 16 percentage points below the state’s 33%, compared with an average ELA result of 29%, 12 points below the state’s 41%.
Walter J Meyer stands out as the local leader in both all-grades subjects, with 35% proficient in ELA and 21% in math, versus 23% and 14% at Huachuca City. However, Walter remains 6 points below the state in ELA and 12 points below in math. Fourth-grade ELA is a notable bright spot for Walter: 77% are proficient, 30 points above the state’s 47%; Huachuca City’s 38% is 9 points below. Both schools also exceed their respective state benchmarks in the science results provided: Huachuca City is 14 points above in eighth grade, while Walter is 24 points above in fifth grade. Those science results cover different grades, so they are not a direct school-to-school comparison.
SchoolDigger’s 2022–23 statewide rankings place Walter 502nd of 1,245 schools, in the 60th percentile with three stars; Huachuca City ranks 809th, in the 35th percentile with two stars. The recent ranking trends diverge: Huachuca City’s percentile fell from 58 in 2020–21 to 35 in 2022–23, while Walter’s rose from 54 to 60; together, their average percentile declined from 56 to 48. These are ranking changes, not year-by-year test-score changes. Walter enrolls 151 students and has a 15.1 student-teacher ratio; Huachuca City enrolls 262 and has a 15.4 ratio, so staffing ratios are similar despite the difference in results.
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