Summary:
Zip code 85378 has one listed school, Arizona Charter Academy, an alternative school serving kindergarten through grade 12 with 1,049 students. With no other listed schools, there is no school-to-school comparison; the available achievement comparisons are with Arizona statewide results. The clearest finding is that the school’s mathematics proficiency is above the state rate in every reported grade.
Because it is the only school listed, Arizona Charter Academy is neither a meaningful area-wide leader nor a trailer. Its strongest result is math: 42% of students are proficient across all grades, compared with 33% statewide, a 9-point advantage. The largest grade-level strength is grade 4 math, at 63% versus 40% statewide, or 23 points higher. ELA is more mixed: the all-grades rate is 39%, 2 points below the state’s 41%, with results ranging from 14 points below state in grade 5 to 7 points above in grade 7. Science is below state in both grades reported: grade 5 is 26% versus 34%, and grade 8 is 29% versus 30%.
These results do not show whether achievement is improving or declining over time: comparable annual test scores are not provided. For families weighing the available information, the main contrast is consistent math performance above state rates alongside sharper grade-by-grade variation in ELA; the grade relevant to a student may be more informative than the all-grades figure. The school’s student-teacher ratio is 18.4, but the list provides no SchoolDigger ranking or star rating and no free/reduced-lunch rate for added context. The school’s reported graduation rate is 45% for 2017–18 and its dropout rate is 6% for 2021–22; the supplied state figures are from different years, so they do not establish current school-state gaps or trends.
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