Summary:
ZIP code 62360 has two schools in Payson CUSD 1: Seymour Elementary School (prekindergarten through sixth grade, 233 students) and Seymour High School (grades 7–12, 216 students). Their 2025–26 all-grades IAR results show a different picture by subject: the high school is slightly ahead in ELA, while the elementary school leads in math. The clearest shared concern is math: the schools’ simple, unweighted average is 26%, compared with 40% statewide, a 14-point gap.
Seymour High School has the higher all-grades ELA result, at 53% versus 50% at Seymour Elementary School; both are below the 56% state result. In math, the elementary school stands out over the high school, with 34% proficient versus 19%, although both are below the 40% state result. The elementary school also has a notable sixth-grade strength: ELA was 84% versus 59% statewide, and math was 50% versus 36%. At the high school, ninth-grade PreACT ELA was a weaker result, at 41% versus 62% statewide. These schools serve different, non-overlapping grade spans, so their all-grades results are not same-grade comparisons.
Reported all-grades IAR results improved from 2024–25 to 2025–26 at both schools. At Seymour Elementary School, ELA rose from 46% to 50% and math from 31% to 34%; at Seymour High School, ELA rose from 33% to 53% and math from 8% to 19%. SchoolDigger’s 2025–26 statewide rankings place the elementary school at the 52nd percentile and the high school at the 29th; across three years, the high school ranking declined 14 percentile points, while the elementary school was down 1 point overall. Context measures are similar: 2024–25 free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 50% and 49%, and student-teacher ratios were 10.8 and 11.1. Chronic absenteeism was 10% at the elementary school and 22% at the high school, compared with 24% statewide.
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