Summary:
ZIP code 85016 has 9 schools—5 elementary, 1 middle and 3 high schools—with grade spans from PK–4 to PK–8, plus three high schools serving grades 9–12; together they enroll 5,345 students, from 19 at Creighton Virtual Academy to 2,106 at Camelback High School. The clearest area-wide picture is a sharp divide: reported all-grades averages are 30% in ELA and 24% in math, compared with state results of 41% and 33%, while Villa Montessori – Phoenix Campus is well above both. The most important finding is that below-state area averages conceal a standout school and a wide range of results.
Villa Montessori – Phoenix Campus leads all-grades results with 62% in ELA and 52% in math—21 and 19 points above the respective state results. At the low end, Camelback High School and Loma Linda Elementary School each report 15% in ELA; Loma Linda has the lowest reported math result, 6%. Madison #1 Elementary School matches the state’s 41% all-grades ELA result and exceeds it in 5th-grade ELA, 42% to 38%. Among high schools, Ridgeview College Preparatory High School leads Camelback in 11th-grade ELA, 27% to 15%. Their outcome measures also differ: Camelback’s graduation rate is 84% versus 80% statewide, while Leona Connected High School reports 27%.
Recent SchoolDigger rankings show relative standing declined for three of four schools with records from 2023–24 to 2025–26: Villa Montessori fell from the 79th to the 66th percentile, Madison Camelview Elementary from the 42nd to the 28th, and Madison #1 from the 56th to the 47th; Camelback rose from the 8th to the 11th percentile. Ratios do not show a simple link to results: Villa’s is 18.8, compared with 12.6 at Larry C Kennedy School, which reports 17% in both subjects; Leona’s ratio is 38. Scores are suppressed for some school-subject comparisons, and free/reduced-lunch fields are blank, so those comparisons are incomplete.
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