Tempe School District

Tempe School District has 22 schools—18 elementary schools and 4 middle schools—with no high schools. For 2025–26, the 20 schools with all-grades results averaged 41% proficiency in ELA and 30% in math, compared with state benchmarks of 41% and 33%. Those averages conceal wide differences: results span 73 points in ELA and 77 points in math, with large gaps even within individual grades. The most important finding for families is that school results vary substantially across the district.

Arredondo Elementary School leads in both subjects, with 89% proficiency in ELA and 81% in math—48 points above the state benchmark in each; its SchoolDigger ranking is 11th of 900, at the 99th percentile, with five stars. Ward Traditional Academy also stands out, with 77% ELA and 60% math, and leads reported grade 5 science results at 92%. Among middle schools, McKemy Academy of International Studies reports 75% ELA and 52% math. At the other end, Geneva Epps Mosley Middle School has the lowest all-grades results, at 16% ELA and 4% math—25 and 29 points below state benchmarks—and ranks last in its SchoolDigger group.

SchoolDigger’s average percentile ranking rose from 34 to 40 among 17 schools with rankings in both 2023–24 and 2025–26; this is a change in relative ranking, not evidence that test scores improved. Enrollment and student-teacher ratios do not neatly track results: McKemy has 334 students and a ratio of 19.0, yet strong results, while Geneva has 694 students and a ratio of 13.0, yet the lowest results. The supplied scores do not establish a multi-year test-score trend, and Carminati and Getz lack comparable all-grades results.