Best High Schools in Zip Code 87327

ZIP code 87327 in Zuni, New Mexico contains two public high schools — Zuni High and Twin Buttes Cyber Academy — both serving grades 10–12 and both run by Zuni Public Schools, a district ranked 83rd of 87 in New Mexico with 0 stars.

Zuni High is the larger school, enrolling 295 of the area's 365 high school students. Its 2024–2025 graduation rate of 81.6% is above both the district (78.2%) and the state (80.6%) — a genuine bright spot for a school where 99.32% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch. Test scores tell a different story: 11th-grade ELA proficiency is 13.04% against a state figure of 36.78%, math is under 10%, and the school ranks 126th of 132 New Mexico high schools (5th percentile, 0 stars). Science is the exception and is improving — 11th-grade science rose from 14.93% to 21.54% while the state average fell. Notably, Zuni High beats its own district at the matching 11th-grade level in both ELA and science.

Twin Buttes Cyber Academy, a virtual school of 70 students, posts the lowest figure in the file: a 53.3% graduation rate, 27.3 points below the state and 28.3 points below Zuni High. Every school-level test result for Twin Buttes is suppressed by the state for privacy, so its academic performance is genuinely unknown rather than demonstrably poor, and it has no public ranking since 2015–2016. Parents comparing the two should weigh Zuni High's stronger completion numbers and fuller data against the fact that both schools serve an almost identically low-income population, making the graduation gap between them the sharpest contrast in the area.