Best Public Schools in Laveen, AZ

Laveen has 15 schools—11 elementary schools, three high schools and one alternative school—with grade spans ranging from elementary grades to K–12; 14 have 2025–26 AASA results. Across those 14 schools, the average is 34% in English Language Arts (ELA) and 25% in math, compared with state figures of 41% and 33%. The most important takeaway is that results vary sharply by school, and the area-wide averages fall below the state in both subjects.

Vista Del Sur Accelerated Academy is the academic leader: its All Grades scores are 79% in ELA and 69% in math, respectively 38 and 36 points above the state, and it leads listed elementary schools in both subjects across grades 3–8. SchoolDigger gives it five stars and a 92nd-percentile statewide rank. At the other end, Country Gardens Charter School has the lowest All Grades results, 11% in ELA and 9% in math; the gap between the highest and lowest schools is 68 points in ELA and 60 in math. SchoolDigger also places Laveen Leadership Academy at Cheatham Farms in the 2nd percentile and Trailside Point Performing Arts Academy in the 6th, with zero stars for each. Among high schools, Heritage Academy Laveen stands out: its 11th-grade scores of 58% in ELA, 45% in math and 31% in science exceed state results by 20, 14 and 12 points. By comparison, Cesar Chavez High School and Betty Fairfax High School score below the state in all three subjects.

Recent SchoolDigger rankings show a modest overall rise, but not a consistent one: among 12 schools with comparable figures, the average moved from the 36th to the 38th percentile, while seven schools rose and five fell. Rogers Ranch STEM Academy and Legacy Traditional School–Laveen Village each gained 7 percentile points; Leadership fell 8 and Trailside fell 7. Enrollment and student–teacher ratios do not neatly match results: Legacy’s reported ratio is 58.1, compared with the 18.5 median, while Vista Del Sur posts top scores with a ratio of 19.8. Income information is available only for Gila Crossing Community School, at 99% free or reduced-price lunch; it has no test scores in the supplied data.