Summary:
The area has one school, Reid Traditional Schools’ Valley Academy, serving students in kindergarten through grade 8, with 713 students. Its reported results are well above Arizona’s in every subject and grade: in 2025–26, 84% of students were proficient in ELA compared with 41% statewide, and 82% were proficient in math compared with 33%; in 2024–25 science, proficiency was 65% in grade 5 versus 34% statewide and 79% in grade 8 versus 30%. The central finding for families is that the school outperformed the state in every available subject-and-grade comparison.
Within the school, seventh-grade ELA is the standout result: 97% were proficient, 54 percentage points above the state’s 43%. The lowest result is fourth-grade math, at 74% compared with 40% statewide, still a 34-point advantage. Results vary by grade—ELA proficiency ranges from 77% to 97%, and math from 74% to 92%—but the school’s advantage is consistent. Across the six tested grades, the unweighted average state advantage is 44 points in ELA and 48 points in math. Math is therefore stronger relative to the state, even though the school’s all-grades ELA proficiency rate is slightly higher than its math rate.
SchoolDigger rates the school 5 stars and ranks it 16th of 900 Arizona schools for 2025–26, in the 98th percentile. Its ranking improved overall from 30th of 912 in 2023–24 to 16th, after reaching 12th of 909 in 2024–25; these rankings do not establish a change in test scores. The school’s reported student–teacher ratio is 19.2 for 2024–25, while its free/reduced-lunch rate is not provided. Results cover one year for ELA and math and a different year for science, so they cannot show achievement trends over time.
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