Summary:
Cortez Park Charter Middle School Inc. has one middle school, Imagine Cortez Park Middle, serving grades 6–8; it enrolls 252 students and has a student–teacher ratio of 21:1. The main academic picture is that the school’s all-grades proficiency rates fall below Arizona’s in both tested subjects: 23% in English language arts (ELA), compared with 41% statewide, and 12% in math, compared with 33%. The clearest concern is that proficiency is 18 points below the state rate in ELA and 21 points below it in math.
There is no local top or bottom school to compare, since Imagine Cortez Park Middle is the only school in the list. Within the school, eighth-grade ELA is the strongest relative result: 34% proficient, 5 points below the state’s 39%. That compares with gaps of 21 points in sixth-grade ELA (20% versus 41%) and 28 points in seventh-grade ELA (15% versus 43%). ELA is also stronger than math overall: the school’s ELA rate is 11 points higher, and its gap to the state is 3 points smaller. Eighth-grade math is 22% proficient, 8 points below the state rate of 30%; the school’s grade 8 science result was 13%, compared with 30% statewide.
SchoolDigger’s ranking improved from 495 of 552 schools in 2024–2025, at the 10th percentile, to 432 of 536 in 2025–2026, at the 19th percentile—63 places and 9 percentile points higher. Still, the latest ranking is in the lower part of the statewide list; compared with 2023–2024, it is 39 places and 10 percentile points lower. These rank changes do not establish a matching change in proficiency. The school serves grades 6–8, and its 21:1 student–teacher ratio is the only one in this list to consider; no free/reduced-lunch rate is provided. Grade 6 and 7 math results are suppressed, and comparable proficiency results from multiple years are not supplied.
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