High Schools in Tempe Union High School District

The seven high schools in Tempe Union High School District serve grades 9–12. Six schools reported 2025–26 ELA and math results, while TAPBI’s results are from 2024–25 and 11th grade; all seven have 2024–25, 11th-grade science results. Across the schools, average proficiency was 46% in ELA, 40% in math, and 27% in science—above state averages of 41%, 33%, and 19%, but below district averages of 51%, 46%, and 31%. The most important finding is how widely results differ from school to school: the highest and lowest results were 45 percentage points apart in both ELA and math, and 33 points apart in science.

Desert Vista leads in all three tested subjects: its 2025–26 ELA and math results were 70% and 63%, ahead of the next-highest school by 5 and 2 points, and its science result was 46%, 6 points above Corona Del Sol. Corona is the consistent runner-up, with 65% ELA and 61% math, and it has the highest reported graduation rate, 96%. McClintock is a stronger middle performer, with 54% ELA and 43% math. At the other end, Tempe High had the lowest ELA, math, and science results: 25%, 18%, and 13%. Yet its 87% graduation rate was above the state rate of 80%.

SchoolDigger’s rankings show improvement for some schools and declines for others from 2023–24 to 2025–26: McClintock gained 10 percentile points and Desert Vista gained 5, while Marcos De Niza fell 10 points and Tempe High fell 2. These are ranking changes, not changes in test scores. The largest schools are also the top two scorers: Desert Vista and Corona Del Sol enroll 2,761 and 2,600 students, respectively, and have student–teacher ratios of 22.4 and 23.4; the ratios at Tempe High and Marcos De Niza are lower, at 18.2 and 18.9, despite their lower test results. Those comparisons describe patterns, not what causes them.