Summary:
Nine schools serve ZIP code 85138: six elementary schools, two high schools, and one alternative school, with grade spans ranging from K–8 at Legacy Traditional School - Casa Grande to K–12 at Maricopa Virtual Academy; A+ Charter Schools serves grades 6–12. Across the eight schools with reportable all-grades scores, the average is 36% in ELA and 27% in math, below state results of 41% and 33%. Yet Santa Rosa Elementary School exceeds the state in both subjects. The most important takeaway is that the school and grade a family considers matter more than the area-wide averages.
Santa Rosa Elementary School leads all-grades ELA at 46%, 5 points above the state, while Pima Butte Elementary School leads math at 37%, 4 points above the state. At the other end, A+ Charter Schools has the lowest reported all-grades scores: 26% in ELA and 11% in math, 15 and 22 points below state results. Grade-level leaders vary: Saddleback Elementary School leads grade 3 in ELA and math, while Pima Butte Elementary School leads grade 4 ELA and grade 4 and 5 math. In fifth-grade science, Pima Butte scores 55%, compared with 21% at Saddleback.
SchoolDigger ranking histories show mixed movement rather than a shared upward or downward trend: Saddleback rose from the 23rd to the 38th percentile between 2023–24 and 2025–26, while Butterfield Elementary School fell from the 46th to the 33rd percentile; Santa Rosa edged up 2 points, and Pima Butte dipped 2. School features also differ: Santa Rosa has a 17.5 student–teacher ratio, Pima Butte 15.9, and Saddleback 13.1, but the lowest ratio does not correspond to the strongest results across subjects. Grade spans differ and some scores are suppressed, so same-grade comparisons are more useful; SchoolDigger ranking changes are not test-score trends.
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