Summary:
ZIP code 85037 has nine schools: eight elementary schools that serve through grade 8 and one high school; seven elementary schools start in pre-K, while Legacy Traditional starts in kindergarten. Across the elementary schools, average proficiency is 28% in ELA and 17% in math, compared with statewide results of 41% and 33%. The area’s clearest overall concern is that average math proficiency is 16 percentage points below the state, while ELA is 13 points below.
The top school depends on the subject: Legacy Traditional School - North Phoenix leads ELA at 43%, 2 points above the state and 9 points above Westwind Elementary School at 34%. Copper King Elementary leads math at 27%, 2 points above Westwind but 6 below the state. At the low end, Desert Horizon Elementary School has the lowest math result, 7%—26 points below the state and 5 below the next-lowest result, Pendergast Elementary School at 12%. Desert Horizon’s ELA result, 21%, is also tied for the lowest with Villa De Paz Elementary School and Amberlea Elementary School.
SchoolDigger’s rank-history percentiles improved for some schools, but this is not evidence that proficiency scores rose: Copper King moved from 21 to 47 between 2023–24 and 2025–26, while Westwind rose 6 points overall after a 24-point rebound in the latest year; Villa De Paz fell 12 points in its reported history. Grade-level results also vary: Copper King reached 51% in grade-5 ELA and 59% in grade-5 math, but its grade-7 math result was 17%. Legacy’s reported student–teacher ratio of 51.5 is far above the other elementary schools’ range of 16.6 to 20.7, despite its leading ELA result. The high school, Arizona Preparatory Academy, had a 50% graduation rate versus 80% statewide and a 20% dropout rate versus 5%. Its AASA proficiency figures are suppressed.
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