Summary:
Zip code 87328 is home to a single middle school: Navajo Middle School, which serves grades 6–8 and enrolls 224 students in the Navajo community. It belongs to Gallup-McKinley City Schools, a district ranked 60th of 87 statewide (31st percentile, 2 stars). With only one school in the area, there is no local comparison to make, so the meaningful yardsticks are the school's own trend and how it stacks up against its district and the state.
Navajo Middle School's report card improved sharply. Its statewide rank rose from 179th of 192 (7th percentile, 0 stars) in 2024–2025 to 104th of 191 (46th percentile, 2 stars) in 2025–2026, and all three tested subjects gained ground: English Language Arts rose 21.55 points to 48.05% proficient, math rose 8.61 points to 17.11%, and eighth-grade science rose 3.30 points to 26.47%. ELA is the clear strength — 48.05% is above both the district (39.37%) and the state (44.66%), and eighth-grade ELA reaches 50%. Math is the weak spot: 17.11% sits below the district (26.30%) and state (27.85%), and eighth-grade math is reported only as under 20%, also below state. Science trails both benchmarks as well.
The defining feature is the gap between subjects: ELA runs 30.94 points ahead of math, roughly 1.7 times the state's gap and 2.4 times the district's, so the school's middle-of-the-pack rating is carried largely by reading and writing. Two cautions are worth weighing. The ELA jump is a single-year change, which can reflect cohort or testing factors as much as instruction, so it is worth watching another year before treating it as settled. Also, the reported student–teacher ratio of 4.9 is unusually low for a middle school and is worth confirming with the school directly; note that this figure and the free/reduced-price lunch rate of 71.88% are available only for 2024–2025.
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