Summary:
Ball Charter Schools (Dobson) has one school, Dobson Academy The – A Ball Charter School, serving kindergarten through grade 8 in the Dobson area. It enrolls 386 students and reports a 12:1 student–teacher ratio. In 2025–26, its all-grades proficiency was 51% in English language arts (ELA) and 52% in math, compared with Arizona’s 41% and 33%; the clearest overall strength is math, where the school is 19 percentage points above the state.
Dobson Academy is both the highest- and lowest-ranked school in this list by default, since it is the only one; the more useful picture is how its results compare with the state and across grades. It is above the state in both all-grades subjects, and its 2024–25 fifth-grade science result was also higher: 55% versus 34%. Grade-level results show meaningful variation, especially in ELA: proficiency ranges from 32% in grade 5 to 72% in grade 8. The school trails the state by 5 points in grade 3 ELA and 6 points in grade 5, but leads by 33 points in grade 8. In math, every grade with a reported school result is above the state, by 13 to 29 points; the strongest comparison is grade 4, at 69% versus 40%.
SchoolDigger’s ranking history rose overall but dipped from its recent high: Dobson Academy moved from the 54th percentile in 2023–24 to the 78th in 2024–25, then to the 69th in 2025–26—15 percentile points higher than at the start, but 9 points below its peak. These rankings do not show a steady year-over-year rise, and the supplied information does not establish a matching trend in test scores. The list has no other school for comparison, and its free/reduced-lunch rate is not reported.
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