Summary:
ZIP code 85641 has six elementary schools, all in Vail Unified District; they serve overlapping grade levels, with all six covering grades 3–5 and some extending beyond grade 5. Across the schools, average proficiency was 60% in all-grades English language arts (ELA), 62% in mathematics and 60% in fifth-grade science, compared with Arizona figures of 41%, 33% and 34%. The most important finding is that Senita Valley Elementary School is the area’s broadest academic standout, leading or tying for the lead across most grade-level results as well as leading all-grades scores and science.
Senita Valley scored 73% in both all-grades ELA and mathematics—16 and 13 points above the other schools’ averages—and 74% in fifth-grade science, 17 points above its peers’ average. Ocotillo Ridge Elementary placed second in all-grades ELA and math, at 66% and 64%, and scored 67% in science. Results are less consistent at the other end: Copper Ridge Elementary had the lowest all-grades ELA result, 53%, and its grade 3 ELA score of 35% was the only grade-specific AASA result below the state. Cottonwood Elementary had the lowest science score, 52%, while Acacia Elementary School had the lowest grade 5 ELA score, 45%.
SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile rankings have shifted unevenly: from 2023–24 to 2025–26, Copper Ridge fell 19 points, from the 92nd to the 73rd percentile, while Ocotillo Ridge fell 6 points; Senita Valley remained near the top at the 96th percentile and ranked 36th of 900 Arizona elementary schools. Size and student–teacher ratio do not provide a simple guide to results: Ocotillo Ridge has a lower ratio than Senita Valley (13.7 versus 18.6), yet Senita scores higher in all-grades ELA, math and fifth-grade science. Free/reduced-lunch figures are unavailable, and proficiency data cover only one year, so rank changes do not establish a proficiency trend.
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