Summary:
The Imagine Charter Elementary at Desert West Inc. area has one school, Imagine Desert West Elementary, serving kindergarten through grade 5, with 714 students and a student–teacher ratio of 23.8:1. With no other schools in the area, parents can compare its results with Arizona’s but not with local school peers. The most important concern is English: in 2025–26, 18% of students were proficient in ELA, compared with 41% statewide, a 23-point gap.
Imagine Desert West Elementary is both the area’s highest- and lowest-performing school by default. Its mathematics result was closer to the state level than its ELA result—26% proficient versus 33% statewide, a 7-point gap—while grade 5 science was 14%, compared with 34% statewide, a 20-point gap. The grade-level results show that performance varies by subject and grade: in grade 5, 15% were proficient in ELA and 30% in mathematics, compared with 38% statewide in both subjects; in grade 4, the school recorded 28% in ELA and 30% in mathematics, versus 47% and 40% statewide. SchoolDigger ranks the district 255th of 267, in the 4th percentile, and gives it 0 stars.
SchoolDigger’s rankings show improved relative standing since 2023–24, followed by a small decline: the district moved from 902nd of 912 schools (1st percentile) to 786th of 909 (14th percentile) in 2024–25, then to 804th of 900 (11th percentile) in 2025–26. That is a net gain of 10 percentile points, but the rankings do not show whether test scores rose or fell. Grade 5 mathematics proficiency was twice the ELA rate, while grade 3 mathematics was 18%, compared with 38% statewide; the grade 3 ELA result is suppressed. The free/reduced-lunch entry is blank, and enrollment and staffing figures have no local school comparison. Because this is a one-school area and comparable multi-year test results are unavailable, families cannot assess local school differences or a test-score trend.
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