Summary:
The area listing includes one high school: Highland Prep, serving grades 9–12 and enrolling 505 students. Its clearest strength is that it exceeded Arizona’s reported proficiency results in every subject provided: by 16 percentage points in all-grades ELA, 27 points in all-grades math, and 16 points in 11th-grade science.
Math is Highland Prep’s strongest result relative to the state. In 2025–26, 60% of students were proficient in all-grades math, compared with 33% statewide; in 11th grade, the figures were 60% and 31%. The school’s ELA results were 57% in both all-grades and 11th-grade reporting, versus 41% statewide for all grades and 38% for 11th grade. In 2024–25 11th-grade science, proficiency was 35%, compared with 19% statewide. Since this is the only school listed, it is not possible to identify a higher- or lower-performing local school.
Highland Prep’s SchoolDigger standing dipped and then rose: its percentile was 77 in 2023–24, 65 in 2024–25, and 83 in 2025–26, for a net increase of 6 points; its latest rank was 44 of 256, with 4 stars. These are changes in SchoolDigger’s relative standing, not proof that test scores changed. The reported student–teacher ratio is 22.9, and spending was $8,444 per student in 2019–20. The school’s listed graduation rate was 98% in 2021–22; the state’s 80% figure is from 2024–25, so the two do not provide a direct year-matched comparison. Because only one year of results is supplied for each tested subject, score trends cannot be established.
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