Summary:
CAFA Inc. dba Learning Foundation and Performing has two schools serving 544 students: Learning Foundation and Performing Arts Warner serves kindergarten through grade 6 (285 students), and Learning Foundation and Performing Arts Gilbert serves grades 7–12 (259 students). In 2025–26, Warner had 38% all-grades ELA proficiency and Gilbert had 26%; Warner’s result is 3 points below the state’s 41% and 5 above the district’s 33%, while Gilbert’s is 15 points below the state and 7 below the district. The clearest reported school-to-school difference is Warner’s 12-point ELA advantage.
Warner’s grade-level ELA results are fairly steady and close to state results: it scored 36% in 3rd grade, 43% in 4th, 38% in 5th and 35% in 6th, each 0–6 points below the corresponding state figure. Its math results are weaker against the state: 19% all-grades proficiency versus 33%, and 31% in 4th grade versus 40%. Gilbert’s reported 11th-grade ELA result is 30%, matching the district and 8 points below the state’s 38%. Because the schools serve nonoverlapping grades and Gilbert’s all-grades and 7th-, 8th- and 11th-grade math results are suppressed, a schoolwide math comparison is not possible.
SchoolDigger percentile rankings moved in different directions: Warner rose from 39 in 2023–24 to 42 in 2024–25 and stayed at 42 in 2025–26; Gilbert fell from 64 in 2020–21 to 43 the next year, then recovered to 49 in 2022–23. Staffing and spending figures also differ: Warner’s 2024–25 student–teacher ratio was 14.2, compared with Gilbert’s 10.3, while reported 2021–22 spending was $6,315 per student at Warner and $14,429 at Gilbert. Despite Gilbert’s higher spending and lower ratio, its reported all-grades ELA result was 12 points lower; these figures describe different years and do not show that one measure caused the other.
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