Summary:
Zip code 85643 has one listed middle school, Willcox Middle School, serving grades 4–8 with 302 students. Its 2025–2026 results put all-grades English language arts (ELA) proficiency at 23%, compared with 25% in the Willcox Unified District and 41% statewide; math proficiency was 6%, versus 16% in the district and 33% statewide. The clearest concern is math: Willcox is 27 percentage points below Arizona and 10 points below its district.
There is no meaningful local top-to-bottom school ranking because Willcox is the only school listed. Within its results, grade 6 ELA is the closest to the state level, at 35% versus 41% (a 6-point gap); grade 8 is furthest behind, at 20% versus 39% (a 19-point gap). Willcox’s ELA results fall from 35% in grade 6 to 31% in grade 7 and 20% in grade 8, while Arizona’s results are 41%, 43% and 39%. Science results are also below the state in both reported grades: 22% versus 34% in grade 5, and 17% versus 30% in grade 8. Those science results are from 2024–2025, unlike the ELA and math figures.
SchoolDigger’s ranking history shows a recent improvement in percentile, but it does not establish that achievement rose: Willcox moved from the 15th percentile in 2024–2025 to the 25th percentile in 2025–2026, while its rank changed from 470 of 552 to 403 of 536. SchoolDigger lists the district at rank 212 of 267, in the 21st percentile, with 1 star. Willcox’s student–teacher ratio is 15.1, and per-student spending is $7,191; the free/reduced-lunch field is blank. Because this ZIP code has only one listed school, the data cannot show how Willcox compares with local peer schools.
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