Best Public Schools in Buckeye, AZ

Buckeye has 31 schools—20 elementary, one middle, eight high schools and two alternative schools—serving students from elementary through high-school grades. Across 28 schools with reported results in both subjects, the unweighted averages were 35% in ELA and 27% in math, each 6 points below the state figures of 41% and 33%. Scores ranged from 20% to 61% in ELA and 9% to 54% in math. The most important finding is that Buckeye’s averages are below state figures, but results vary widely from school to school.

Verrado Heritage Elementary led all-grades ELA at 61%, while Verrado Elementary led math at 54%; their other subject scores were 50% and 60%, respectively. Westpark Elementary also stands out, with 42% ELA and 51% math, compared with averages of 27% and 23% at the other seven schools in the Buckeye Elementary District. At the lower end, Buckeye Elementary had the lowest ELA result, 20%, and Rainbow Valley Elementary the lowest math result, 9—21 and 24 points below their respective state figures. For high-school families, Great Hearts Academies – Roosevelt led reported 11th-grade results with 75% ELA and 64% math.

SchoolDigger’s statewide elementary rankings place Verrado Heritage and Verrado Elementary in the 79th and 78th percentiles. Across 21 schools with comparable rank-history entries, the average change was a decline of about 2 percentile points; 9 schools rose, 11 fell and one was unchanged. Other measures add context, but do not neatly predict results: Verrado Heritage reports a 22.0 student-teacher ratio and strong scores, while Odyssey Institute reports 11.6 and 15% all-grades math proficiency. Traditional high schools’ graduation rates were all about 93%, above the state’s 80%; science averages were below grade-specific state figures in 5th, 8th and 11th grade. Free/reduced-lunch figures are unavailable, and schools serve different grade spans, so comparisons are not perfectly like-for-like.