Summary:
ZIP code 85028 has two high schools: Shadow Mountain High School, serving grades 7–12 with 1,080 students, and Accelerated Learning Center, serving grades 9–12 with 133 students. Together, they report 1,213 students, with Shadow Mountain enrolling about 89% of them. The clearest shared outcome is graduation: in 2024–25, Shadow Mountain’s rate was 93%, compared with 60% at Accelerated Learning Center, a 33-point difference.
Shadow Mountain stands out in graduation and in its reported proficiency results, while Accelerated Learning Center has the lower graduation rate and a high reported dropout rate. Shadow Mountain’s 2024–25 graduation rate was 13 points above Arizona’s 80% rate; Accelerated Learning Center’s was 20 points below it. Shadow Mountain’s reported 2025–26 proficiency was also above the state in every supplied subject and grade grouping: all-grades ELA was 62% versus 41% statewide, and math was 50% versus 33%. In 11th grade, ELA was 63% versus 38%, math was 50% versus 31%, and science was 35% versus 19%. Accelerated Learning Center’s 2024–25 dropout rate was 20%, 15 points above the state’s 5%. The other school’s proficiency results and Shadow Mountain’s eighth-grade results are suppressed, so the available scores do not support a complete school-to-school academic comparison.
SchoolDigger’s ranking histories show movement rather than a consistent climb or decline. Shadow Mountain’s percentile was 74 in 2022–23, fell to 59 the next year, then rose to 76 in 2024–25—a 2-point net increase. Accelerated Learning Center’s percentile rose from 23 in 2020–21 to 40 in 2021–22, then slipped to 35 in 2022–23, for a 12-point net increase. Shadow Mountain reports a student–teacher ratio of 15.5 for 2024–25; no ratio is supplied for Accelerated Learning Center. The ranking periods do not overlap, and the available figures do not show a ratio for both schools or free/reduced-lunch rates.
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