Pensar Academy

The Pensar Academy area list contains one middle school, Pensar Academy, serving grades 4–8 and 203 students. In 2025–26, 38% of students were proficient in all-grades ELA, compared with 41% statewide; in mathematics, 23% were proficient, compared with 33% statewide. The most important concern is all-grades mathematics, where the school is 10 percentage points below Arizona.

There is no meaningful top-to-bottom comparison because Pensar Academy is the only school in the list. Its strongest reported results are in eighth grade: ELA proficiency was 49%, 10 points above the state’s 39%, and science proficiency was 40%, 10 points above the state’s 30% in 2024–25. Eighth-grade mathematics was also slightly above the state result, at 31% versus 30%. Results vary by grade: sixth-grade ELA was 28% versus 41% statewide, while seventh-grade ELA was 40% versus 43%; seventh-grade mathematics was 19% versus 27%. These differences show why the eighth-grade strengths do not represent every grade.

SchoolDigger lists Pensar Academy at rank 292 of 536, in the 46th percentile, with 2 stars for 2025–26. Its percentile was 45th in 2023–24, rose to 61st in 2024–25, then fell to 46th in 2025–26—a 1-point net rise across those years. That ranking movement does not establish a trend in test scores. The reported student–teacher ratio is 16.2 for 2024–25, and no free/reduced-lunch rate is provided. Because the list contains only one school and comparable proficiency results across multiple years are not supplied, it cannot show how the school compares with local peers or whether test scores are changing over time.