Summary:
ZIP code 85249 has two high schools, both in Chandler Unified District #80: Basha High School serves grades 6–12 and enrolls 2,826 students, while Arizona College Prep High School serves grades 7–12 and enrolls 2,271. Both schools’ results are well above state proficiency rates in the shared measures. The clearest overall distinction is that Arizona College Prep leads Basha in all-grades ELA and math and in all three shared 11th-grade subjects.
Arizona College Prep stands out at the top of the direct comparisons: its all-grades proficiency is 83% in ELA and 87% in math, compared with 76% and 73% at Basha. The gap grows in 11th-grade science, where Arizona College Prep scores 64% and Basha 22%, a 42-point difference; Arizona College Prep also leads by 15 points in 11th-grade ELA and 22 in math. Basha has a notable result of its own: 79% proficiency in 8th-grade science, versus 30% statewide. Graduation rates are high at both schools, with Arizona College Prep at 97% and Basha at 94% in 2024–2025. SchoolDigger ranks Arizona College Prep 6th of 256 Arizona schools and Basha 25th; both receive five stars.
SchoolDigger’s rankings show both schools higher in statewide percentile standing in 2025–2026 than in 2023–2024: Basha rose from the 86th to the 90th percentile after dipping to the 77th, while Arizona College Prep moved from the 96th to the 98th. These rankings describe relative standing, not changes in proficiency scores. Arizona College Prep is smaller, yet its student–teacher ratio is higher: 22.3 compared with Basha’s 20.1; those figures do not track the schools’ achievement pattern in a simple way. Because grade spans and reported test-grade coverage differ, comparisons are strongest for the grades and subjects both schools share.
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