Best Middle Schools in Arizona for Special Education Students

Check out our new feature available only on SchoolDigger: rankings for different groups of students in Arizona!

Every year, the Arizona Department of Education shares test results for various student groups in each school. We use these results to find out which schools do best for each group and list them from the best to the worst.

Additionally, we also compare the performance of the subgroup to the performance of the school as a whole. This makes it easy to see if, for example, Special Education students are overperforming or underperforming their peers in each school.

Year after year, SchoolDigger is always the first to publish Arizona test scores and rankings. Other sites use stale test score data that are several years old! Be in the know with the very latest performance metrics.

Alert! We are expecting the release of this year's test scores by the Arizona Department of Education any day now! We will update our rankings as soon as they are released!

Alert! New test scores and rankings are expected from the Arizona Department of Education any day now!

School															Students/Teachers											Per Pupil Expenditures (2022)							Ranking (Special Education vs All Students - 2022)
ID	Rank (of 318)	School	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	# Students	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Disc Lunch Recipients	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Per Pupil Expenditures: Total	Personnel from Federal Funds	Non-Personnel from Federal Funds	Total from Federal Funds	Personnel from State and Local Funds	Non-Personnel from State and Local Funds	Total from State and Local Funds	Statewide Rank Percentile (Special Education)	Statewide Rank Percentile (All Students)	Rank Percentile Difference from All Students	SchoolDigger Rating (Special Education)	SchoolDigger Rating (All Students)
040957000323	1	Yucca Elementary School	Public	K-8	12261 3rd St	Yucca	86438	Mohave County	Yucca Elementary District	No	(n/a)	No	No	(928) 766-2581	39	3	13	71.8%	29 (74.4%)	1 (2.6%)	7 (17.9%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (2.6%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (2.6%)		$00			$00			99.7%	92.0%	7.68%
040011501617	2	Hermosa Montessori Charter	Public, Charter	K-8	12051 E Fort Lowell Rd	Tucson	85749	Pima County	Hermosa Montessori Charter School	Yes	(n/a)	No	No	(520) 749-5518	196				135 (68.9%)	5 (2.6%)	39 (19.9%)	2 (1.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	15 (7.7%)		$00			$00			99.4%	89.7%	9.71%
040016501755	3	Keystone Montessori Charter School	Public, Charter, Alternative	1-9	1025 E Liberty Ln	Phoenix	85048	Maricopa County	Keystone Montessori Charter School Inc.	Yes	(n/a)	No	No	(480) 460-7312	185				102 (55.1%)	9 (4.9%)	48 (25.9%)	16 (8.6%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	10 (5.4%)		$00			$00			99.1%	89.2%	9.87%
040087803350	4	BASIS Tucson North	Public, Charter	5-12	5740 E River Rd	Tucson	85750	Pima County	BASIS Charter Schools Inc.	Yes	(n/a)	No	No	(520) 207-0076	863				316 (36.6%)	44 (5.1%)	211 (24.4%)	234 (27.1%)	11 (1.3%)	1 (0.1%)	46 (5.3%)	$9,097	$272	$43	$586	$6,070	$2,712	$8,782	98.7%	98.1%	0.62%
040023202022	5	Self Development Charter School	Public, Charter	K-8	1709 N Greenfield Rd	Mesa	85205	Maricopa County	Self Development Charter School	Yes	(n/a)	No	No	(480) 641-2640	422				206 (48.8%)	29 (6.9%)	107 (25.4%)	37 (8.8%)	1 (0.2%)	2 (0.5%)	40 (9.5%)	$9,801	$00	$70	$70	$5,367	$4,363	$9,731	98.4%	97.6%	0.78%
040757003250	6	Scottsdale Online Learning	Public, Virtual, Alternative	K-12	7601 E Oak St.	Scottsdale	85257	Maricopa County	Scottsdale Unified District	No	(n/a)	Yes	No	(480) 484-6897	359	20	18.4		205 (57.1%)	24 (6.7%)	58 (16.2%)	34 (9.5%)	24 (6.7%)	0 (0.0%)	14 (3.9%)	$10,528	$00	$00	$00	$9,030	$1,498	$10,528	98.1%	74.7%	23.38%
040090303418	7	BASIS Prescott	Public, Charter, Alternative	K-12	1901 Prescott Lakes Pkwy	Prescott	86301	Yavapai County	BASIS Charter Schools Inc.	Yes	(n/a)	No	No	(928) 277-0334	619				442 (71.4%)	7 (1.1%)	105 (17.0%)	29 (4.7%)	3 (0.5%)	0 (0.0%)	33 (5.3%)	$11,345	$112	$16	$240	$7,662	$3,554	$11,217	97.8%	98.0%	0.20%
040010001714	8	Hearn Academy The - A Ball Charter School	Public, Charter	K-8	17606 N 7th Ave	Phoenix	85023	Maricopa County	Ball Charter Schools (Hearn)	Yes	(n/a)	No	Yes	(602) 896-9160	653			17.3%	378 (57.9%)	32 (4.9%)	231 (35.4%)	10 (1.5%)	2 (0.3%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)		$00			$00			97.5%	92.5%	5.00%
040031702202	9	Khalsa School	Public, Charter	K-8	3701 E River Rd	Tucson	85718	Pima County	Khalsa Family Services	Yes	(n/a)	No	No	(520) 529-3611	245				168 (68.6%)	2 (0.8%)	50 (20.4%)	16 (6.5%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	9 (3.7%)		$00			$00			97.2%	94.5%	2.69%
040084303351	10	BASIS Phoenix	Public, Charter	5-12	11850 N 32nd St	Phoenix	85028	Maricopa County	BASIS Charter Schools Inc.	Yes	(n/a)	No	No	(602) 595-9870	730				202 (27.7%)	18 (2.5%)	51 (7.0%)	433 (59.3%)	2 (0.3%)	0 (0.0%)	24 (3.3%)	$8,066	$121	$18	$260	$4,729	$3,197	$7,927	96.9%	99.3%	2.44%

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About our rankings:

Schooldigger calculates school rankings based on AASA English Language Arts, AASA Mathematics, AzSCI Science test scores released by the Arizona Department of Education.
These rankings were last updated on September 7, 2022, and are based on the most recent test scores available. We update rankings as we receive new test scores from the Arizona Department of Education, usually on a yearly basis.
Our sources of data include the National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education and the Arizona Department of Education.
For more information about our ranking process, please see our Ranking FAQ. Details about our methodology are here.

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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. School Attendance Areas provided by ATTOM.