Legacy Traditional School - West Surprise

The area covered here has one school, Legacy Traditional School - West Surprise, an elementary school in Surprise serving kindergarten through grade 8, with 1,231 students. The school’s 2025–26 results show it is above Arizona’s statewide proficiency rates in both English language arts (ELA) and mathematics. Its clearest strength is ELA: 61% of students were proficient, 20 percentage points above the state rate of 41%.

As the only school in the list, Legacy Traditional School - West Surprise is both the highest- and lowest-scoring school in this area’s dataset; there are no other local schools to compare. Its ELA advantage over the state appears in every tested grade, ranging from 14 to 25 points, while school proficiency rates range from 52% to 64% across grades 3–8. Mathematics is also above the state in every grade, but results are less even: the school leads by 23–25 points in grades 3 and 4, then by just 1–6 points in grades 5–8. In science, the school was 17 points above the state in grade 5 (51% versus 34%) and 19 points above in grade 8 (49% versus 30%) in 2024–25.

SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking improved over the three years shown, from the 66th percentile and 3 stars in 2023–24 to the 75th percentile and 4 stars in 2025–26; it also received 4 stars in 2024–25. The rank moved from 306th of 912 schools to 224th of 900, indicating stronger relative standing in SchoolDigger’s rankings, but the available proficiency results do not show whether scores rose over time. The school reports a student–teacher ratio of 53.5, but there are no other schools in this list for comparison. Because the list contains only one school, there is no school-to-school comparison, and the free/reduced-lunch figure is not reported.