High Schools in Mesa Unified District

Mesa Unified District has eight high schools in the Mesa area: six serve grades 9–12, while East Valley Academy and Superstition High School serve grades 7–12. The latter two schools’ proficiency results are suppressed. Across the six schools with reported scores, average proficiency is below state results in ELA, math and 11th-grade science. The most important difference is that Red Mountain and Mountain View exceed the state in both ELA and math, while the other four schools fall below it in both.

Red Mountain leads in ELA, at 51%, and math, at 41%—10 and 8 percentage points above state results—and has the group’s highest graduation rate, 95%. Mountain View leads in science, at 17%, though that is still 2 points below the state; it is also 7 points above the state in ELA and 6 in math. At the other end, Westwood has the lowest ELA score, 25%, and Skyline the lowest math score, 15%. Mesa has the lowest science result, 8%. The six-school graduation average is 88%, above the state’s 80%; East Valley Academy’s listed rate of 21% is a stark contrast.

SchoolDigger statewide ranking percentiles improved most at Dobson, up 19 points from the 21st to the 40th percentile, and Mesa, up 14 points to the 38th. Red Mountain rose 8 points to the 68th percentile, while Mountain View was nearly unchanged at the 64th. SchoolDigger ranks Red Mountain 81st of 256 and Mountain View 93rd. Ratios do not neatly match results: Skyline has the lowest student–teacher ratio, 17.8, but the lowest math score, while Mountain View has the highest ratio, 22.2, and leads science. These are patterns, not evidence that class size explains achievement. The reported free/reduced-lunch fields are blank.