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Oxbow Estates, AZ schools

Oxbow Estates’s public schools score well below Arizona’s averages: 32% of students are proficient in reading against 38.5% statewide, and 71% of high schoolers graduate on time against 77.3%. Kids attend Payson Elementary School through grade 2, then Julia Randall Elementary School, Rim Country Middle School and Payson High School.

Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.

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Oxbow Estates’s School Grade: B-

The public schools Oxbow Estates’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 50% of Arizona’s districts on state tests and graduation.

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High confidence. Built on 1,060 tested students and a graduating class of 212; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
  • Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Arizona’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
  • The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
  • Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Arizona only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
  • Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Arizona with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
  • What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
School path

Where Oxbow Estates kids go to school

Grades K–2
Payson Elementary School 430 students · Payson Payson Unified District
Grades 3–5
B-Julia Randall Elementary School 503 students · Payson Payson Unified District
Grades 6–8
B-Rim Country Middle School 478 students · Payson Payson Unified District
Grades 9–12
B-Payson High School 733 students · Payson Payson Unified District

Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.

Test scores · 2020–21

Well below the state in reading

Reading (grades K–12, Payson Unified)32%
State average 38.5%
Math (grades K–12, Payson Unified)20%
State average 31.2%
Graduation · class of 2020

71% graduate on time

Graduation rate
71%
AZ: 77.3%
Graduating class
212
students

The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.

Districts

The district serving Oxbow Estates

Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.

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Colleges near Oxbow Estates

There’s no college within 30 miles of Oxbow Estates. The closest is Phoenix Seminary in Scottsdale, AZ, 52.6 miles away.

Paradise Valley Community CollegeUniversity or college · Public · Phoenix52.9 mi4,363 students

Straight-line distance from the center of Oxbow Estates. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus. Colleges marked › have their own page; the others are too small or don’t report enough to the Department of Education for one.

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