Summary:
The two high schools in Arizona Agribusiness & Equine Center INC. serve grades 9–12 and enroll 148 students altogether: 97 at Arizona Agribusiness & Equine Center Inc. – Mesa and 51 at AAEC Online. The clearest current academic difference is in English: Mesa’s 2025–2026 ELA proficiency is 61%, compared with 43% at Online, an 18-point gap. Mesa also reports 56% math proficiency, while Online’s math result is suppressed. Overall, Mesa is the clearest current academic standout in the available results.
Mesa leads the reported current results, while Online’s ELA score is closer to the state figure. Mesa’s ELA result is 20 points above the state’s 41% and 11 points above the district’s 50%; Online’s 43% is 2 points above the state. Mesa’s math result is 23 points above both the state and district figures of 33%, though a comparison with Online is not possible. The two schools’ unweighted average ELA score is 52%, 11 points above the state, but that average masks the 18-point difference between them. Online also has a concerning historical indicator: its 2023–2024 dropout rate was 15%, compared with 8% districtwide, a 7-point gap.
SchoolDigger rankings offer historical context, not a measure of current test-score change. Mesa’s percentile moved from 81 in 2021–2022 to 74 in 2022–2023 and 84 in 2025–2026; its listed rank shifted from 121st of 469 schools to 42nd of 256 between the latter two ranking years. Online’s single listed ranking was 42nd of 469 schools, at the 91st percentile, in 2022–2023. Online is smaller and has a lower student–teacher ratio—7.2 compared with Mesa’s 16.1—yet its current ELA result is lower. Their 2021–2022 graduation rates were similar: 93% at Mesa and 92% at Online. Online’s math score is suppressed, and the one-year test results cannot show whether either school’s proficiency is rising or falling.
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