Little Lamb Community School

Mission Montessori Academy is the only school listed in Little Lamb Community School, serving kindergarten through grade 8 and enrolling 129 students. The clearest takeaway for families is that its reported all-grades results are well above Arizona’s rates in both subjects: 74% of students are proficient in English language arts (ELA), compared with 41% statewide, and 67% in math, compared with 33% statewide.

There is no local top or bottom school to compare: this is the area’s sole school, so its results are the only local results, not a lead over nearby peers. Its advantage over the state appears across every reported grade and subject. The largest matched gap is in grade 3 ELA, where proficiency is 84% versus 39% statewide, a 45-point difference. The narrowest is grade 4 ELA, at 69% versus 47%, a 22-point difference. In grade 5 ELA, the school is at 72% compared with 38% statewide; in math, it is ahead by 36 points in grade 3 and 29 points in grade 4. Overall, math’s 34-point state advantage is nearly the same as ELA’s 33-point advantage.

Mission Montessori Academy has a 5-star SchoolDigger rating, and SchoolDigger ranks it 51st of 900 schools statewide, in the 94th percentile for 2025–26; it ranked 39th of 909, in the 96th percentile, the prior year, and 39th of 912, also in the 96th percentile, in 2023–24. That is a 2-point percentile drop from the prior year, but it reflects a change in ranking, not a measured change in test proficiency; SchoolDigger ranks the district 18th of 267, in the 93rd percentile. The school’s student–teacher ratio is 12.9, and no free/reduced-lunch rate is supplied; historical proficiency rates are unavailable, and grade 5 math results are suppressed.