Best Elementary Schools in Zip Code 86403

ZIP code 86403 has two elementary schools: Smoketree Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 6, and Telesis Preparatory, serving kindergarten through grade 8. In 2025–26, both reported all-grades results in English language arts (ELA) and math, and the strongest overall results came from Smoketree. The most important takeaway is that results vary considerably by school and grade, so the all-grades comparison does not tell the whole story.

Smoketree leads in the all-grades results, with 48% proficient in ELA and 47% in math, compared with 39% and 28% at Telesis. Smoketree is 7 points above the state in ELA and 14 points above in math; Telesis is 2 and 5 points below, respectively. But Telesis leads in the clearest shared-grade comparison: in grade 4, its 52% in ELA and 48% in math are 13 and 6 points higher than Smoketree’s results. Telesis is above the state in both subjects in grade 4, while Smoketree is below the state in ELA and slightly above it in math.

The grade-level pattern adds useful context: Smoketree is above state results in both subjects in grades 3, 5, and 6, but its grade 4 ELA result is 8 points below the state. Telesis’s available grade-level results are above the state, though some are not reported. SchoolDigger gives both schools three stars: Smoketree ranks 333rd of 900 schools (63rd percentile) for 2025–26, while Telesis ranks 406th of 909 (55th percentile) for 2024–25. Smoketree’s percentile moved from 62 to 56 and then 63 across the three supplied years; Telesis’s rose from 63 to 72 before falling to 55. Smoketree has the higher listed student–teacher ratio, 20.8 versus 11.7, despite its stronger all-grades scores; enrollment is 543 versus 258. Because the schools serve different grade spans, their all-grades results are not perfectly comparable, and free/reduced-lunch rates are not reported.