Summary
Kaleidoscope School is a K–8 school in north Phoenix, at 16850 N 16th St, with 296 students. Its all-grades results are stronger than the nearby-school average, though they are not above the state in both subjects. The clearest standout is fifth-grade science: proficiency jumped 36 percentage points, from 23% in 2022–2023 to 59% in 2023–2024, while the state remained at 34%.
Compared with the state, the school’s current math result is stronger than its ELA result: 36% of students were proficient in math, 3 points above the state’s 33%, while 38% were proficient in ELA, 3 points below the state’s 41%. Still, the school exceeded the ten nearby schools’ averages in both subjects: about 33% in ELA and 30% in math. Its results ranked third among the 11 schools, including Kaleidoscope, in both subjects; only Lookout Mountain School and Hearn Academy The - A Ball Charter School scored higher in each. The supplied district results match the school’s in both subjects. Grade-level results are uneven: third-grade math reached 51%, 13 points above the state, while fourth-grade ELA was 40%, 7 points below it.
SchoolDigger rates Kaleidoscope at the 51st percentile with 3 stars for 2025–2026, ranking it 442nd of 900 statewide and fifth among eight nearby schools with current rankings. Its overall percentile has fallen 21 points from 72 in 2020–2021, including a 12-point decline since 2024–2025. The school has a low student–teacher ratio of 12.3, tied for the lowest reported among nearby schools, and the smallest enrollment in the group; those measures do not make it the local test-score leader. SchoolDigger’s group rankings also show a notably lower standing for White students: the group ranked at the 16th percentile in 2023–2024, compared with the school’s overall 63rd percentile that year, down from the group’s 67th percentile in 2020–2021. Results for grades 6–8 are suppressed, and nearby schools serve different grade spans.
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