Summary:
Three schools serve ZIP code 85366, spanning kindergarten through grade 12: Harvest Preparatory Academy (K–12), Desert View Academy (K–6), and Desert View Middle & High School (grades 6–12). Together they enroll 2,174 students; Harvest is the largest, with 1,068, and Desert View Middle & High is the smallest, with 225—a difference of 843 students. The clearest overall standout is Desert View Academy, which leads in both all-grades subjects and exceeds state results in every reported grade from 3 through 5 in both ELA and math.
Desert View Academy has the strongest all-grades results: 55% in ELA and 54% in math, compared with state results of 41% and 33%. Its ELA score is 8 points above the next-highest school, and its math score is 35 points above Harvest and 38 above Desert View Middle & High. Desert View Middle & High is mixed: its 47% ELA result is 6 points above the state and second among the schools, while its 16% math result is 17 points below the state and the lowest. Harvest has the lowest ELA result, 33%—8 points below the state—and scores 19% in math, 14 points below. By grade, Desert View Middle & High has higher ELA than Harvest in grades 6–8, while their math results are much closer.
SchoolDigger rankings show different histories: Desert View Academy moved from the 76th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 74th in 2024–2025 and remained there in 2025–2026; Desert View Middle & High fell from the 77th percentile in 2015–2016 to the 40th in 2017–2018. Science results also depend on grade: Desert View Academy scored 52% in grade 5, compared with 34% statewide, while Desert View Middle & High scored 38% in grade 8, versus 30% statewide. Student-teacher ratios range from 18.4 at Harvest to 20.4 at Desert View Middle & High; Desert View Academy’s is 20.0. These figures are observations, not evidence that ratios determine results; current test results cover one year, the schools serve different grades, and free/reduced-lunch data are unavailable.
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