Summary:
Golden Valley, Arizona, has one listed school, Black Mountain Elementary School, serving kindergarten through grade 8 and enrolling 474 students. It is part of Kingman Unified School District, so there is no second local school for a meaningful school-to-school comparison. The clearest picture comes from comparing its results with state figures: Black Mountain’s all-grade proficiency is lower than the state’s in both English language arts (ELA) and mathematics, with the larger gap in mathematics.
Black Mountain is the area’s only school, so it cannot be described as the top or bottom performer among local schools. Its 2025–26 all-grade ELA result was 21%, compared with 41% statewide, a 20-point gap; mathematics was 9% versus 33%, a 24-point gap. Among the reported grade-specific ELA results, the school was 18 points below the state in each of grades 4, 5, and 6. Science offers a more mixed picture: in 2024–25, grade 8 proficiency was 36%, 6 points above the state and 12 points above the district, while grade 5 was 27%, equal to the district and 7 points below the state. The grade 8 result is a positive exception to the broader subject results.
SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile ranking declined over the three reported years, from the 22nd percentile in 2023–24 to the 18th in 2024–25 and the 8th in 2025–26; its latest ranking was 830th of 900 schools, with 0 stars. These are SchoolDigger rankings and ratings, not proficiency scores. The school’s student–teacher ratio is 18.2, and it serves a broad K–8 grade span; no free/reduced-lunch rate is reported. Those figures describe the school but do not explain its test results. Because there is only one local school, these data cannot show how its results compare with other Golden Valley schools.
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