Vista Del Sur Accelerated Academy

Vista Del Sur Accelerated Academy is a PK–8 school serving 893 students in Laveen, Arizona. In 2025–2026, 79% of students were proficient in English language arts (ELA) and 69% in math. Those results were well above the state and Laveen Elementary District: Vista exceeded state results by 38 points in ELA and 36 in math, and district results by 41 and 37 points, respectively. Most importantly, Vista also had the highest reported all-grades results among the nearby schools in both subjects.

Vista’s results are strong across grades, though math in grade 4 is a relative soft spot. Its highest ELA results were 88% in grades 7 and 8; its lowest was 65% in grade 4. Math peaked at 86% in grade 8, while grades 4 and 6 were lowest at 63%. Even those lower results beat state and district benchmarks: grade 4 ELA was 18 points above the state and 23 above the district, while grade 4 math was 23 and 24 points higher. Vista’s all-grades scores were also 50 points above the nearby-school average in ELA and 47 points above it in math. In same-grade comparisons, its smallest lead was 3 points in grade 4 math; its other reported leads ranged from 12 to 47 points.

Science results show different patterns by grade: grade 5 fell from 83% in 2022–2023 to 60% in 2023–2024, then rose to 64% in 2024–2025; grade 8 climbed from 62% to 79%, then remained high at 78%. SchoolDigger ranked Vista 71st of 900 statewide in 2025–2026, at the 92nd percentile with 5 stars. Its percentile has eased from 99 in 2018–2019, but it remains well above the nearby-school group. The 2024–2025 student–teacher ratio was 19.8, above the nearby median of 17.6; the reported free/reduced-lunch rate was 32% in 2022–2023. SchoolDigger ranked Vista’s effectiveness for African American students at the 75th percentile in 2024–2025, compared with its overall 94th percentile that year. ELA and math trends cannot be assessed from the single year provided, and the subgroup ranking was based on just four schools.