Summary:
ZIP code 85041 has 12 schools: 11 elementary schools and one alternative school, with most serving prekindergarten or kindergarten through grade 8; BASIS Phoenix South serves K–12. Across the 12 schools, average all-grades proficiency is 25% in ELA and 17% in math, compared with 41% and 33% statewide. The results vary considerably from school to school, but the clearest overall finding is that only BASIS exceeds the state in ELA, and no school exceeds it in math.
BASIS Phoenix South leads the all-grades results with 44% in ELA and 31% in math—19 and 14 points above the area averages, respectively—though its math score is still 2 points below the state. EAGLE College Prep is another strong overall option in these results, at 31% in ELA and 28% in math, about 11 points above the area average in each subject. At the lower end, Educational & Verma Pastor Elementary School has 17% ELA and 7% math; Sun Valley Academy-Glendale also reports 7% math. Individual grades can tell a different story: BASIS has 78% grade 8 ELA proficiency, while Maurice C. Cash Elementary School has 51% grade 5 math.
SchoolDigger’s recent statewide rankings mostly declined among the seven schools with two years of results: their average change was down 6 percentile points from 2024–25 to 2025–26, with Bernard Black Elementary School down 35 points, while Cash rose 6. These rankings are not evidence that test proficiency changed over time. Ratios also don’t neatly track results: BASIS has 11.1 students per teacher and leads overall, while Glendale’s lower 10.1 ratio accompanies the joint-lowest math result. Grade-specific comparisons may help families distinguish schools: BASIS grade 8 ELA is 39 points above the state, and Cash grade 5 math is 13 points above; results in other grades and subjects can differ. The supplied data do not include free/reduced-lunch rates, and the schools’ different grade spans mean their all-grades results are not perfectly like-for-like.
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