Summary:
Leading Edge Academy Maricopa is the only school listed in Maricopa for Leading Edge Academy Maricopa; it serves kindergarten through eighth grade and enrolls 872 students. In 2025–2026, its all-grades proficiency rates were 37% in English language arts (ELA) and 29% in math, each 4 points below Arizona’s 41% and 33%. Grade-matched averages were also below the state: 5 points lower in ELA and 2 points lower in math. The most important finding is that these overall results conceal sharp differences by grade.
Fourth grade stands out as the strongest relative to the state in both subjects: ELA was 56% versus 47% statewide, and math was 57% versus 40%—9 and 17 points higher. At the other end, fifth-grade ELA was 25%, 13 points below the state, and sixth-grade math was 11%, 19 points below. The difference between the school’s highest and lowest reported grade results spans 31 points in ELA and 46 points in math. Subject results also vary within grades: sixth-grade math was 9 points further below the state than sixth-grade ELA, while third-grade math was 8 points above the state and ELA was 1 point below. Science results were below state rates in both reported grades: fifth grade was 24% versus 34%, and eighth grade was 23% versus 30%.
SchoolDigger’s ranking history shows a modest decline in relative standing, not a clear test-score trend: the school ranked at the 50th percentile in 2023–2024 and the 45th percentile in both 2024–2025 and 2025–2026. Its student–teacher ratio was 15.6 in 2024–2025; no free/reduced-lunch rate was provided. These details offer context, but there is no second school in the list for comparison, and the supplied ranking history does not establish whether achievement rose or fell. Eighth-grade math results are suppressed, so the school’s math average covers only grades 3–7.
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