Summary:
Zip code 86032 has one middle school, Joseph City Junior High School, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 97 students. Its 2025–2026 results show a much larger shortfall in mathematics than in English language arts (ELA): 17% of students were proficient in math, compared with 33% statewide, while ELA proficiency was 39%, compared with 41%. The clearest concern for parents is mathematics, where the school is 16 percentage points below the state, versus a 2-point gap in ELA.
Within this school, ELA results are strongest against the state in grade 8 and weakest in grade 6. Grade 8 proficiency was 40%, 1 point above Arizona’s 39%; grade 6 was 35%, 6 points below the state’s 41%. Grade 7 was close to the state, at 42% versus 43%. The school matched district results in each ELA grade. Overall, it also trailed the Joseph City Unified District: by 4 points in ELA (39% versus 43%) and 6 points in math (17% versus 23%).
SchoolDigger’s ranking history is mixed rather than a steady rise: the school was at the 50th percentile with 2 stars in 2022–2023, rose to the 58th percentile with 3 stars in 2023–2024, and returned to the 50th percentile with 3 stars in 2025–2026. Its latest listed rank is 269 of 536 schools. The reported student-teacher ratio is 7.2 for 2024–2025. Because proficiency results are supplied only for 2025–2026, achievement trends cannot be established; ranking pools differed in size, and no free/reduced-lunch percentage is reported.
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