Summary:
Zip code 85706 has two middle schools in Sunnyside Unified District: Gallego Intermediate Fine Arts Magnet School, serving grades 4–8, and Apollo Middle School, serving grades 6–8. Results vary substantially by school, with Gallego ahead of Apollo in every reported all-grades measure. The clearest overall takeaway is that Gallego leads, but neither school reaches the state’s all-grades proficiency rates in both ELA and math.
Gallego is the stronger of the two: 38% of students are proficient in all-grades ELA and 25% in math, compared with Apollo’s 16% and 7%. Against state rates of 41% in ELA and 33% in math, Gallego is 3 and 8 points lower, while Apollo is 25 and 26 points lower. The advantage also appears in the grades both schools serve: Gallego leads by 24 points in grade 7 ELA and grade 8 ELA, and by 8 points in grade 7 math and 10 points in grade 8 math. Because the schools serve different grade spans, their all-grades results are not a perfect like-for-like comparison.
SchoolDigger ranks Gallego 368th of 536 schools, in the 31st percentile with 2 stars; Apollo ranks 528th, in the 1st percentile with 0 stars. Gallego’s reported percentile rose from 18 to 31 between 2023–24 and 2025–26, while Apollo moved from the 4th percentile to the 1st; these ranking changes do not establish a trend in test scores, as earlier test results are not provided. Gallego’s grade 5 math result is a notable bright spot at 49%, 11 points above the state, but its grades 6–8 math results are 12%–17%. Gallego has a student-teacher ratio of 21.3, compared with Apollo’s 14.5, even as Gallego posts higher results; the figures alone do not explain why. Free/reduced-lunch entries are blank for both schools.
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