Summary:
ZIP code 87328 covers the Navajo, New Mexico area and includes five schools — two elementary schools, one middle school, and two high schools — serving 784 students across grades PK through 12. Three of them, Navajo Elementary, Navajo Middle School, and Navajo Pine High, belong to Gallup-McKinley City Schools, which is ranked 60th of 87 districts in the state at the 31st percentile with 2 stars. Those three account for 674 of the 784 students, about 86% of enrollment. The other two, Dzit Dit Lool School Of Empowerment Action And Perseverance and Crystal Boarding School, report as their own districts.
Navajo Middle School is the clear academic standout. Its all-grades language arts proficiency of 48.05% beats both the district's 36.49% and the state's 43.34%, and its 8th-grade ELA score of 50% is above both as well. Its rank jumped from the 7th percentile in 2024–2025 to the 46th percentile in 2025–2026, moving from 0 stars to 2 stars. Navajo Pine High stands out in science, with 11th-grade scores of 35.48% on NM Combined and 36.67% on NM-ASR, above district and state. Navajo Elementary improved from the 4th to the 26th percentile, moving from 0 stars to 1 star, though its scores remain below district and state.
Math is the shared weakness: every school with usable all-grades math data falls below the district's 23.81% and the state's 25.54% — Navajo Middle at 17.11%, Navajo Elementary at 18.84%, and Navajo Pine High under 20%. High school completion is also a concern: Navajo Pine High's graduation rate of 64.0% trails the district's 75.8% and the state's 80.6%, and Dzit Dit Lool's most recent available rate was 58.8% in 2022–2023. Poverty is high everywhere, with free/reduced lunch ranging from 71.88% to 100%. Finally, the smallest schools have the largest data gaps — Dzit Dit Lool has all 2025–2026 tests suppressed and Crystal Boarding has no test or rank data listed — so missing figures should be read as unknown, not as evidence of weakness.
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