Summary:
South Phoenix Academy Inc. includes one elementary school serving grades K–4, with 295 students: South Phoenix Prep and Arts Academy. In 2025–26, the school’s all-grades AASA proficiency was 37% in ELA and 36% in math, compared with 41% and 33% statewide. The most important concern is 3rd-grade ELA: 26% were proficient, 13 percentage points below the state’s 39%.
There is no meaningful top-or-bottom school comparison in this one-school group, so this school’s results describe the area. Its clearest grade-level strength is 4th-grade ELA, at 47%, matching the state; 3rd-grade ELA is the weakest result, at 26% versus 39%. Math results show a different pattern: overall, the school was 3 points above the state, at 36% versus 33%, but it was below the state in both grades shown—36% versus 38% in grade 3 and 35% versus 40% in grade 4. SchoolDigger rates the school 2 stars and ranks it 535th of 900 schools, at the 41st percentile.
SchoolDigger’s ranking rose from the 26th percentile in 2022–23 to the 8th percentile in 2023–24, then to the 41st percentile in 2025–26—33 percentile points above its low and 15 points above its 2022–23 standing. Because there is only one school, the ranked pools changed over time, and comparable multi-year test scores and a free/reduced-lunch rate are not supplied, these figures cannot show an area-wide pattern or a test-score trend. For context, the school had 295 students and a student–teacher ratio of 12.2 in 2024–25; without other schools to compare, those figures do not show how enrollment or staffing relates to results.
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