Summary:
ZIP code 87325 covers the Tohatchi community in McKinley County, New Mexico, on the Navajo Nation, and contains four public schools serving about 1,030 students in total: Tohatchi Elementary (PK–5, 246 students), Tohatchi Middle (6–8, 297 students), Tohatchi High (9–12, 279 students), and Ch'ooshgai Community School (K–8, 208 students). The first three belong to Gallup-McKinley City Schools, a district ranked 60th of 87 statewide (31st percentile); Ch'ooshgai reports under its own district. Free/reduced-lunch rates range from 76.34% at the high school to 98.56% at Ch'ooshgai, averaging about 86% — far above state norms.
The clearest good news is improvement at the lower levels. Tohatchi Elementary jumped from the 16th to the 47th percentile and raised English Language Arts proficiency from 27.36% to 40.37% (+13.0 points), now above its district's rate; its 3rd grade is exceptional at 55.17% in ELA and 37.93% in math, both well above state. Tohatchi Middle climbed from the 11th to the 39th percentile and lifted math from 17.18% to 24.59%. Tohatchi High graduates 84.3% of students, above both the district (75.8%) and state (80.6%). All three now rank above their own district's 31st percentile.
Weak spots remain. Tohatchi Elementary's ELA falls from 55.17% in 3rd grade to 40.74–40.91% in 4th and 25.81% in 5th, with 5th-grade math and science and all-grades science reported only as under 20%; 4th-grade math is suppressed by the state. Tohatchi High slipped from the 49th to the 33rd percentile, and grade-11 math is 10.53% — close to both district (10.66%) and state (12.72%), suggesting a regional pattern. Its science result fell from 47.37% to 27.03% between years. Ch'ooshgai Community School, about one in five students here, has no published test scores or state ranking at all.
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