Summary:
Zip code 85392 has three Avondale elementary schools, all serving PK–8 and belonging to Pendergast Elementary District, which ranks 217th of 267 districts (19th percentile) on SchoolDigger. Across the schools, the simple average of all-grades proficiency is 37% in ELA, 4 points below the state’s 41%, and 20% in math, 13 points below the state’s 33%. The average math result is 8 points farther below the state than the average ELA result, making math the clearest shared weakness.
Garden Lakes Elementary School stands out in all-grades results, leading with 41% in ELA and 24% in math; its ELA matches the state, while its math is 9 points below. It leads the other schools in ELA by 6–7 points and in math by 3–8 points. Canyon Breeze Elementary is at the bottom in all-grades math (16%) and fifth-grade science (14%), but its third- and fifth-grade ELA results, 44% and 43%, are above the state results for those grades. Rio Vista Elementary leads among schools with reported results in fourth-grade ELA (50%) and math (34%), yet has the group’s lowest seventh-grade ELA result (20%).
SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile rankings improved most for Canyon Breeze, rising from 10 to 40 between 2023–24 and 2025–26; Rio Vista rose from 19 to 33, while Garden Lakes shifted from 44 to 43. These are relative rankings, not proficiency trends: Canyon Breeze’s improvement sits alongside the group’s lowest current math and fifth-grade science results. Grade-level ELA also varies: the school average is above the state in third grade (42% versus 39%), close in fourth (46% versus 47%), and 13 points below in seventh (30% versus 43%). Enrollment and ratios do not form a simple pattern: Garden Lakes is largest, with 941 students and a 20.9 student–teacher ratio, while smallest Canyon Breeze has 640 students and a 20.6 ratio; Rio Vista has the lowest ratio, 16.9, but does not lead in all-grades results.
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