Summary:
ZIP code 85648 has five schools in the Santa Cruz Valley Unified District: three elementary schools, one middle school and one high school. Across the schools, average All Grades proficiency is about 30% in ELA, compared with 41% statewide, and 19% in math, compared with 33% statewide. The most important area-wide finding is that every school’s supplied All Grades proficiency rate is below the state rate in both subjects.
Coatimundi Middle School leads All Grades ELA at 36%—13 percentage points above the lowest result, Rio Rico High School at 23%—though it remains below the 41% state rate. In math, Mountain View School and San Cayetano Elementary School tie at 23%, 8 points above Rio Rico and 10 below the state. Grade-level standouts include San Cayetano’s fifth-grade ELA at 39%, 1 point above the state, and Coatimundi’s sixth-grade math at 33%, 3 points above. Rio Rico presents a contrast: its graduation rate is 94%, versus 80% statewide, while its 11th-grade ELA and math results trail state rates by 15 and 16 points.
SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking percentiles show mixed movement rather than a broad upward trend from 2023–24 to 2025–26: Rio Rico rose 7 points, Calabasas rose 2, while Coatimundi fell 1, Mountain View fell 4 and San Cayetano fell 2; the five-school average changed little overall. For families comparing the two K–5 schools, Mountain View and San Cayetano have similar enrollment (406 and 395) and student–teacher ratios (19.0 and 20.4), but their leads vary by grade and subject: Mountain View is ahead in grades 3 and 4 ELA, while San Cayetano leads in grade 5 ELA and math; their All Grades math rates are tied. Free/reduced-lunch figures are unavailable, and comparisons across schools with different grade spans are less like-for-like.
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