Best High Schools in Zip Code 85701

ZIP code 85701 has two high schools serving grades 9–12: Pima County Schools Superintendent's Diploma Program and City High School. Their reported results show a sharp split rather than a uniformly strong or weak picture for the area. The most important difference is in English Language Arts: City’s proficiency is 44%, compared with 5% at Pima and 41% statewide.

City stands out in the available test results, while Pima is the clearest low outlier in ELA and graduation. City’s 11th-grade ELA result is 44%, versus 5% at Pima and 38% statewide; its 11th-grade science result is 32%, 13 points above the state’s 19%. Pima’s graduation rate is 15.6%—64 points below the state’s 80.0%—while City’s 73.9% rate is 6 points below the state. Dropout rates are also above the state figure at both schools: 10.2% at City and 27.2% at Pima, compared with 5.1% statewide. SchoolDigger ranks City 89th of 271 schools, in the 67th percentile with 3 stars; Pima ranks 271st of 271, in the 0th percentile with 0 stars.

SchoolDigger’s ranking history shows different paths: City rose from the 65th to the 67th percentile between 2022–23 and 2024–25, while Pima fell from the 6th percentile to the 0th; the two-school average declined by 2 percentile points. The schools also differ substantially in size: Pima enrolls 2,058 students, about 12.5 times City’s 165, alongside weaker reported results; this comparison does not show that enrollment explains the difference. City’s student–teacher ratio is 7.3, but Pima’s is not reported. Mathematics results are suppressed for both schools, and Pima has no reported science result, so those subjects cannot be compared across the pair.