Summary:
Six middle schools in Kyrene Elementary District serve grades 4–8 and enroll 4,387 students, with school sizes ranging from 565 to 857. Across the schools, 2025–26 English language arts (ELA) proficiency averages 50%, 9 percentage points above Arizona’s 41%; math averages 33%, about even with the state’s 33%. That math average hides the most important difference for families: Kyrene Middle and Kyrene Centennial each have 20% math proficiency, 13 points below Arizona, while four other schools are above the state rate.
Kyrene Altadena is the clearest overall standout, leading in ELA at 64% and math at 47%—23 and 14 points above Arizona—and in grade 8 science at 57%, 27 points above the state. Kyrene Aprende is also strong: it has 62% ELA proficiency and the highest grade 8 ELA result, 64%, though its all-grades math result is 39%. At the other end, Centennial has the lowest ELA result, 29%, and shares the lowest math result. Kyrene del Pueblo offers a useful comparison: its ELA and math scores are 52% and 35%, respectively, compared with Centennial’s 29% and 20%, despite similar enrollments. Grade 8 science is from 2024–25, unlike the ELA and math results.
SchoolDigger’s statewide rankings show improvement overall but not at every school: the group’s average percentile rose from 56 to 60 between 2023–24 and 2025–26. Aprende gained 12 percentile points and del Pueblo gained 10, while Kyrene Akimel A-Al gained 6 and Altadena gained 3; Kyrene Middle and Centennial each lost 2. In the latest rankings, Altadena placed 88th of 536 schools and Aprende 131st; each received four stars from SchoolDigger, while Centennial placed 377th and received two stars. School size and student-teacher ratios do not neatly predict results: Altadena is largest, with a ratio of 22, while Kyrene Middle has the lowest ratio, 16.5, but is tied for the lowest math score. Free/reduced-lunch rates are not available for comparison.
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