Summary:
Imagine Desert West Middle Inc. has one school, Imagine Desert West Middle, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 437 students. Its 2025–26 all-grade proficiency rates are 18% in English Language Arts (ELA) and 11% in mathematics, compared with 41% and 33% statewide. The most important finding is that the school is substantially below the state in both core subjects, with similar gaps: 23 percentage points in ELA and 22 points in mathematics.
Because it is the area’s only school, Imagine Desert West Middle is both the area’s highest- and lowest-performing school by default; there are no local school-to-school comparisons. ELA is its stronger all-grade result, at 18% proficient versus 11% in mathematics, but that is not a clear advantage relative to the state: the ELA gap is 23 points and the math gap is 22. ELA results remain below state rates in every grade reported: by 21 points in sixth grade, 26 in seventh and 23 in eighth. The available eighth-grade science result is also below the state rate, at 12% versus 30% in 2024–25.
SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking improved recently, but the school remains in the bottom part of its rankings: it placed 526th of 550 schools in the 4th percentile in 2023–24, 548th of 552 in the 1st percentile in 2024–25, and 511th of 536 in the 5th percentile in 2025–26, with 0 stars. The latest rank number improved by 37 places from the prior year, but the available proficiency results do not establish a longer-term score trend. The reported student–teacher ratio is 20.8, and no free/reduced-lunch rate is reported. Since the area has only one school and one year of all-grade ELA and math results, families cannot use these data to compare local schools or determine whether scores are moving toward the state over time.
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