Summary:
Three high schools serve ZIP code 85042: South Pointe High School and Kaizen Education Foundation dba Quest High School serve grades 9–12, while Paideia Liberal Arts Academy serves grades 7–12. The reported proficiency results are below Arizona averages, and dropout rates are higher at every school: 19% at South Pointe, 18% at Quest and 11% at Paideia, compared with 5% statewide. The most serious reported graduation concern is at South Pointe, where 40% of students graduated in 2024–25, versus 80% statewide.
Paideia stands out for all-grades English Language Arts (ELA): 34% of students were proficient, 23 percentage points above South Pointe’s 11%, though still 7 points below the 41% state figure. In math, the two schools tie at 11% proficiency, 22 points below the state’s 33%; Quest’s scores are suppressed. Paideia’s eighth-grade ELA result, 31% versus 39% statewide, is also closer to its grade-level benchmark than South Pointe’s 11th-grade ELA result, 11% versus 38%. South Pointe’s 11th-grade math was 11%, compared with 31% statewide.
School size and student–teacher ratios vary: South Pointe enrolls 615 students and has a 21.9 ratio, compared with 266 students and a 12.6 ratio at Paideia, and 84 students and a 12.0 ratio at Quest. SchoolDigger’s percentile ranking for South Pointe rose from 0 in 2023–24 and 2024–25 to 8 in 2025–26; Quest’s went from 14 in 2020–21 to 19 the next year, then down to 3 in 2022–23. These rankings show mixed movement, not a consistent area-wide trend in proficiency. Quest’s test results are suppressed, and Paideia serves younger grades than the other two schools, so the all-grades comparisons are not fully like-for-like.
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