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Best Public Schools in Zip Code 86510

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At a glance

Schools

1,205

Students

Districts

Top rankedPinon Accelerated Middle School480^th of 536 Arizona middle schools

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Smallest classes

Pinon Accelerated Middle School 11.6 students per teacher

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Summary:

ZIP code 86510 has six schools—four elementary, one middle and one high school—with reported free/reduced-lunch rates of 93% to 97% at three schools. Only Pinon Elementary School and Pinon Accelerated Middle School have reported all-grades test scores; Pinon High School’s scores are suppressed, and the other three schools have no scores in the supplied data. The most important finding is that both schools with reported scores are far below state benchmarks: their average is 17% in ELA, 24 points below the state’s 41%, and 12% in math, 22 points below the state’s 33%.

There is no clear academic leader across both subjects, and the differences between the two reporting schools are small. Pinon Accelerated Middle School has the higher all-grades ELA result, 18% versus 16% at Pinon Elementary School; Pinon Elementary leads in math, 12% versus 11%. Middle-school ELA is the stronger grade-level comparison: results are 26% in grade 6 and 24% in grade 7, respectively 15 and 19 points below state results. Pinon Elementary’s grade 4 ELA and math results are each 25 points below the state. Pinon High School stands out on dropout rate, at about 4% in 2024–25 compared with 5% statewide—2 percentage points lower.

SchoolDigger’s rankings show improvement for the elementary and high schools, but a mixed path for the middle school. Pinon High rose from the 6th to the 20th percentile between 2016–17 and 2022–23, while Pinon Elementary moved from the 3rd to the 11th percentile; these are ranking changes, not proficiency-score gains. Pinon Accelerated Middle went from the 15th percentile in 2018–19 to the 10th in 2025–26, after reaching the 6th percentile in 2022–23. The middle school also has a lower student–teacher ratio than the elementary school, 11.6 versus 13.3, and a smaller enrollment, 232 versus 439, yet its results are slightly higher in ELA and slightly lower in math. The three schools with reported lunch rates are Jeehdeez'a Elementary School (97%), Black Mesa Community School (94%) and Pinon Community School (93%); these figures are context, not an explanation of school results.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2026)				Ranking ()				AASA English Language Arts (2026)								AASA Mathematics (2026)								Vaccination (2025-26)		Per Pupil Expenditures (2022)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/reduced lunch (2024-25)	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2026)	Statewide Rank (2026)	State Percentile (2026)	SchoolDigger Rating (2026)	Average Standard Score ()	Statewide Rank ()	State Percentile ()	Rank Change from Previous Year	AASA English Language Arts 3rd Grade	AASA English Language Arts 4th Grade	AASA English Language Arts 5th Grade	AASA English Language Arts 6th Grade	AASA English Language Arts 7th Grade	AASA English Language Arts 8th Grade	AASA English Language Arts 11th Grade	AASA English Language Arts All Grades	AASA Mathematics 3rd Grade	AASA Mathematics 4th Grade	AASA Mathematics 5th Grade	AASA Mathematics 6th Grade	AASA Mathematics 7th Grade	AASA Mathematics 8th Grade	AASA Mathematics 11th Grade	AASA Mathematics All Grades	Vaccination: Kindergartners fully immunized against measles (MMR)	Vaccination: Exemption rate	Per Pupil Expenditures: Total	Personnel Spending from Federal Funds	Non-Personnel Spending from Federal Funds	Sub-total from Federal Funds	Personnel Spending from State and Local Funds	Non-Personnel from State and Local Funds	Sub-total Spending from State and Local Funds
Pinon Elementary School	Public	PK, KG-5	1 Mile North of Hwy 41	Pinon	86510	Navajo County	Pinon Unified District	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(928) 725-2201	439	33	13.3	—	1 (0.2%)	0 (0.0%)	6 (1.4%)	1 (0.2%)	423 (96.4%)	3 (0.7%)	5 (1.1%)								(n/a)		22.0						16.0		15.0						12.0			$11,782	$4,074	$283	$8,430	$7,058	$367	$7,425
Pinon Accelerated Middle School	Public	6-8	1 Mile North of Hwy 41	Pinon	86510	Navajo County	Pinon Unified District	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(928) 725-2301	232	20	11.6	—	1 (0.4%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (0.4%)	0 (0.0%)	227 (97.8%)	2 (0.9%)	1 (0.4%)	13.9	480^th of 536 public middle schools	10.4%					(n/a)				26.0	24.0			18.0						13.0		11.0			$11,424	$7,671	$278	$15,619	$3,398	$77	$3,475
Pinon High School	Public	9-12	1 Mile North of Hwy 41	Pinon	86510	Navajo County	Pinon Unified District	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(928) 725-2401	348	21	16.5	—	1 (0.3%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (0.3%)	342 (98.3%)	0 (0.0%)	4 (1.1%)								(n/a)																			$10,988	$4,840	$560	$10,240	$4,963	$625	$5,588
NATIVE - Pinon High School	Public	9-12	1 mile N. Pinon Route 41	Pinon	86510	Navajo County	Northeast Arizona Technological Institute of Vocat	No	(n/a)	No	No	(928) 725-2400	0			—	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()								(n/a)																				$00			$00
Jeehdeez'a Elementary School	Public	K-5	3 miles E on Navajo Route 60	Pinon	86510	Navajo County	Jeehdeez'a Elementary School	(n/a)	No	No	Yes	(928) 725-3308	88	6	14.6	96.6%	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	88 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)								(n/a)
Pinon Community School	Public	K	Navajo Rt 4	Pinon	86510	Navajo County	Pinon Community School	(n/a)	No	No	Yes	(928) 725-3250	46	3	15.3	93.5%	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	46 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)								(n/a)
Black Mesa Community School	Public	K-8	Rte 8066 N Pinon	Pinon	86510	Navajo County	Black Mesa Community School	(n/a)	No	No	Yes	(928) 674-3632	52	5	10.4	94.2%	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	52 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)								(n/a)

Cities Near Zip Code 86510

City	Distance	# of Schools
Keams Canyon	9.87 mi	5
Pinon	10.89 mi	8
Polacca	11.4 mi	1
Second Mesa	15.96 mi	1
Kykotsmovi	17.73 mi	2

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Arizona Department of Education.

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