Summary
Apollo High School serves grades 9–12 in Glendale, Arizona, and enrolls 2,152 students—the largest enrollment among the nearby schools listed. Its strongest headline result is graduation: in 2024–25, 96% of students graduated, compared with 87% districtwide and 80% statewide, a lead of 9 and 16 percentage points, respectively.
Test results are less strong against state and district benchmarks, though Apollo compares favorably with nearby schools in some subjects. In 2025–26, ELA proficiency was 35%, below the state’s 41% and the district’s 40%, but 7 points above the average for nearby schools with numeric results. Math proficiency was 26%, below the state’s 33% and district’s 32%; it was about 1 point below the nearby-school average. In 2024–25 science, Apollo’s 14% was below the state’s 19% and district’s 17%, but above Cortez High School at 11% and Glenview College Preparatory High School at 13%.
Over time, Apollo’s graduation rate rose 6 percentage points from 2020–21 to 2024–25, while its SchoolDigger statewide percentile fell 33 points between 2015–16 and 2025–26, from 78 to 45; its latest ranking improved 5 points from the prior year. SchoolDigger ranks Apollo 141st of 256 schools, at the 45th percentile with 2 stars; the Glendale Union High School District is ranked 143rd of 267 districts, at the 46th percentile with 2 stars. Apollo’s student–teacher ratio is 22.9, above Cortez’s 21.6 and Glenview’s 22.3, and its reported free/reduced-lunch rate was 57% in 2022–23. SchoolDigger’s historical rankings of how well schools serve particular groups show a sharp drop for Special Education Students: Apollo went from the 78th percentile in 2021–22 to the 14th in 2022–23, when its overall ranking was at the 54th percentile. Its Multi-racial Students ranking was also low in 2022–23, at the 7th percentile; these subgroup figures are historical, not current standings.
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