Summary:
ZIP code 86409 has two high schools, both serving grades 9–12: Kingman High School and Kingman Academy of Learning – High School. Their reported results show a sharply divided local picture: one school meets or exceeds state proficiency rates, while the other falls short in every reported subject. The most important finding for families is that the school choice makes a substantial difference in the academic results represented here.
Kingman Academy stands out at the top: it is above the state rate in four of five comparisons and matches it in all-grades math, with 50% proficient versus 41% in all-grades ELA and 21% versus 19% in 11th-grade science. Kingman High is below the state rate in all five results. Academy leads Kingman High by 27 percentage points in ELA, 20 points in math, and 10 points in 11th-grade science. Across the two schools, average proficiency is below the state rate in every reported subject; the largest shortfall is in math, where the all-grades average is 23% compared with 33% statewide.
SchoolDigger’s ranking history improved overall, especially for Academy, but it does not show a trend in test proficiency: Academy’s percentile rose from 43 in 2023–24 to 60 in 2025–26, while Kingman High rose from 14 to 18, after each school dipped in 2024–25. Academy is also the smaller school, with 361 students versus 875, and has a lower student-teacher ratio: 18.7 compared with 21.2. Kingman High’s 2024–25 graduation rate was 70% versus 80% statewide, and its dropout rate was 6% versus 5%; Academy’s available graduation figure is from a different year. The supplied data do not provide Academy’s 2024–25 graduation and dropout rates or support a test-score trend over time.
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