Summary:
ZIP code 85901 has 8 schools: 3 elementary, 1 middle, 1 high, and 3 alternative, spanning elementary through high school. The available results show a sharp contrast between schools, so families should not assume one school represents the whole area. The clearest positive finding is Linden Elementary School, which is above the state in both all-grades subjects and every reported grade from 3rd through 5th.
Linden leads with 57% in all-grades ELA and 52% in math, compared with state results of 41% and 33%—16 and 19 percentage points higher. Its results are also 15 points above the next-highest reported school in each subject. At the other end, Sequoia Village School has 18% in all-grades ELA, 23 points below the state; its math result is suppressed. Nikolaus Homestead Elementary School is above the state in 3rd- and 4th-grade math, but falls to 26% in 5th grade, 12 points below the state and 25 below Linden. Show Low High School is at the state level in all-grades ELA and math, while its 11th-grade ELA, math, and science results are 3, 2, and 7 points above their state comparisons.
SchoolDigger’s recent rank percentiles rose overall at the schools with three years shown, though the pattern varies: Nikolaus went from 33 to 47, Linden from 62 to 72, and Show Low Junior High School from 48 to 49. These are ranking changes, not evidence that proficiency scores improved over time. In a like-grade comparison, Linden also has a lower student-teacher ratio than Nikolaus—14.8 versus 19.1—and scores higher in all six reported 3rd–5th-grade subject comparisons. Proficiency results cover only one year, and several schools or subjects have no reported result, so complete comparisons and test-score trends are not available.
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