Summary:
ZIP code 86032 has three schools in the Joseph City Elementary School (PK–6), Joseph City Junior High School (6–8), and Joseph City High School (9–12), serving 415 students altogether. The clearest bright spot is high school ELA: 68% of students were proficient, well above the other schools’ rates.
Joseph City High School leads in all-grades ELA at 68%, compared with 40% at Elementary and 39% at Junior High; High is also 27 points above the state rate of 41%. Math is a weaker area: Elementary’s 28% is 5 points below the state’s 33%, while Junior High’s 17% is 16 points below the state and 11 below Elementary. High’s all-grades math result is suppressed. Grade-level results show important exceptions: Elementary fourth-grade math is 52%, 12 points above the state, and its fifth-grade science is 43%, 9 points above the state. In ELA, Junior High sixth grade is 6 points below the state, while its eighth-grade result is 1 point above.
The available SchoolDigger ranking histories show different patterns, not a shared area-wide trend: Elementary moved from the 59th percentile to the 67th and back to the 59th; Junior High moved from the 50th to the 58th and then the 50th; High rose from the 75th to the 83rd percentile over its listed years. School size and student-teacher ratios do not track simply with results: Elementary is largest, with 190 students and a 13.3 ratio; Junior High is smallest, with 97 students and a 7.2 ratio; High has 128 students and an 8.7 ratio. These rankings are not proficiency-score trends, and the listed periods differ across schools.
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