Summary:
ZIP code 87420 covers Shiprock, New Mexico, and contains three high schools: Shiprock High (grades 9–12), Northwest High School (grades 7–12), and Career Prep Alternative (grades 9–12), together enrolling 771 students. Nearly every student at all three schools qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch — 100%, 99.15%, and 98.01% — so economic need is pervasive across the area. Shiprock High and Career Prep Alternative belong to Central Consolidated Schools, ranked 80th of 87 New Mexico districts at the 8th percentile with 0 stars; Northwest High School is listed under its own district, with no district rank provided.
Shiprock High is by far the largest, with 502 students — 65.1% of the ZIP code's high school enrollment — and the most complete data. Its 2025–26 rank is 111 of 132 (16th percentile, 1 star), up from the 11th and 13th percentiles in the two prior years. Its 77.4% graduation rate sits 4.8 points below the district's 82.2% and 3.2 points below the state's 80.6%. In 11th-grade testing it beats its district in every subject listed but trails the state in all of them: ELA 22.55% vs 18.5% district vs 36.78% state; math 6.86% vs 4.91% vs 12.72%; science 26.47% vs 21.93% vs 34.02%. Math is its weakest area, with SAT math reported only as under 10%; science (about 25–26%) is comparatively stronger.
Career Prep Alternative has the lowest reported graduation rate here — 46.6%, which is 30.8 points below Shiprock High and well below both district and state. Its current test scores are suppressed as "—", so its academic performance cannot be judged from this data, and that gap should not be read as zero proficiency. Northwest High School is the smallest (151 students) and has the lowest student/teacher ratio, 7.8, versus 9.0 and 12.5 at the other two — but it has no test-score, graduation, or rank data available, so that staffing advantage cannot be linked to outcomes here.
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