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Deer Valley Unified District


At a glance
84thof 267 Arizona districts
Better than 68% of Arizona districts
20402 N 15th Ave
Phoenix, AZ 85027-3636
·(623) 445-5000·All Arizona district rankings →
Statewide performance 2018–2026
2026: better than 68.5% of districts
42
Schools
32,265
Students
5
5-star schools
Top rankedLegend Springs Elementary66th of 900 Arizona elementary schools
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Biggest riser
Stetson Hills School up 57 spots statewide this year
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Smallest classes
Deer Valley High School 9.2 students per teacher
SchoolDigger ratings
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9 schools without a SchoolDigger rating (too few tested students)
Summary:

Deer Valley Unified District includes 41 schools—31 elementary, three middle, five high and two alternative—serving students from elementary through high-school grades. Across 40 schools with reported results, the average was 52% in ELA and 47% in math, above state averages of 41% and 33% but below district averages of 55% and 49%. Results vary widely from school to school: ELA rates span 55 percentage points and math rates span 60, so the district average alone can hide large differences.

Top results differ by subject, while the lowest results also vary. Mountain Ridge High School leads All Grades ELA at 73%, just above Diamond Canyon School at 72%; Mountain Ridge is 32 points above the state. In math, Legend Springs Elementary leads at 74%, 41 points above the state. At the lower end, Sunrise Elementary has the lowest ELA rate, 18%, while Deer Valley Middle School has the lowest math rate, 14%. Same-grade results can show strengths hidden by school-wide figures: Boulder Creek High School eighth graders scored 96% in both ELA and math.

SchoolDigger’s ranking histories show both gains and declines, rather than a single area-wide direction: Mirage Elementary School rose from the 21st to the 34th percentile, while Park Meadows Elementary School fell from the 47th to the 27th. Ratios do not line up consistently with results: Mountain Ridge has a 23.9 student–teacher ratio and high scores, while Deer Valley High School has a 9.2 ratio and lower scores. No schools have reported free/reduced-lunch rates. Because AASA scores are available for only one year and lunch-rate fields are blank, these data cannot show score changes over time or support income-context comparisons.

Ranking:
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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Arizona Department of Education.

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