Redacted pie slice - When a subgroup in this report has 10 or fewer students, showing their information may risk an individual students anonymity. In this case, we do not report any information for that subgroup.
Teacher Qualification data in Arizona includes educator experience and qualifications for principals, assistant principals, deans of students, and teachers.
This section displays information on the percentage of students taking a state mandated assessment.
Arizona's State Board of Education-approved tool for ongoing progress monitoring of preschool aged children is Teaching Strategies GOLD (TSG). Data collected through the use of this valid and reliable assessment tool helps to inform instruction and lesson planning as well as provides information routinely to address individual needs of children. This information assists educators in identifying where a child is in relation to their optimal development. Arizona assesses its progress towards identifying the school-readiness levels of children through the use of TSG.
This data below shows percentage of preschool and pre-kindergarten children meeting or exceeding age level expectations. Pre-kindergarten is one year before kindergarten and preschool is two years before kindergarten.
Student Growth categories are determined using student growth percentiles, a ranking from 1 to 99 that explains a student's academic progress on the statewide assessments in Math and English Language Arts as compared to his/her academic peers. Academic peers are determined based on a student’s previous scoring history.
The Arizona Department of Education (ADE) has developed English Language Proficiency (ELP) Standards for English Learners attending either a public district school or public charter school in Arizona. These standards help measure student progress in English Language proficiency and provide classroom teachers with goals to help focus instruction. The Arizona ELP Standards help students gain the language knowledge needed to meet the language demands and complexity of math, science, and social studies. A student achieves proficiency by reaching certain benchmarks on the Arizona English Language Learner Assessment (AZELLA), Arizona’s assessment that measures student English language development.
The "Four-year graduation rate" is the percentage of students who graduated within the first 4 years of enrolling in high school.
Gray Bar - When a subgroup in this report has 10 or fewer students, showing their information may risk an individual student's anonymity. In these cases, we take care to hide either the number of students reported, the percentage, or both, and show * symbols instead. Similarly, when all students in a subgroup possess the same information, reporting 100% or 0% would violate each student’s anonymity. To protect students’ anonymity, we do not report percentage values above 98 or below 2.
Gray Bar - When a subgroup in this report has 10 or fewer students, showing their information may risk an individual student's anonymity. In these cases, we take care to hide either the number of students reported, the percentage, or both, and show * symbols instead. Similarly, when all students in a subgroup possess the same information, reporting 100% or 0% would violate each student’s anonymity. To protect students’ anonymity, we do not report percentage values above 98 or below 2.
This section displays information on the number and percentage of students who promote to the next grade or graduate from high school at the end of the school year.
Gray Bar: When a subgroup in this report has 10 or fewer students, showing their information may risk an individual student's anonymity. In these cases, we take care to hide either the number of students reported, the percentage, or both, and show * symbols instead. Similarly, when all students in a subgroup possess the same information, reporting 100% or 0% would violate each student’s anonymity. To protect students’ anonymity, we do not report percentage values above 98 or below 2.
The State of Arizona identifies a student in grades 1 to 8 as chronically absent if the student misses more than 10% of the school's calendar days. A typical school calendar is 180 days, therefore a student would need to miss in excess of 18 days to be considered in this category.
The College and Career Readiness score in the A-F State Accountability system is
derived from seniors completion in programs, assessments or activities
that have shown to predict success after high school.
Normally, Arizona calculates A-F letter grades for eligible schools annually. A.R.S. § 15-741 Section 2 prohibits ADE from assigning letter grades for the 2020-2021 school year. However, the data from this year that is used in calculating A-F components is particularly important for understanding the academic impact of COVID. Care should be taken when making direct comparisons of data in the A-F calculations with previous years, otherwise inferences may be invalid.
The Arizona Board of Regents has additional information on their
"Arizona High School Report Card" that specifically reports on Arizona graduates' college
performance statistics by high school. The link below will open to a report displaying several
key postsecondary performance indicators.
For ABOR High School Report Card - click here.
The Arizona Department of Education is working with the Arizona Auditor General's Office and Local Education Agencies to provide a template for the reporting of school level expenditures from all school districts and charter districts for Fiscal Year 2018-2019. These expenditures will be used to determine per pupil expenditures for the 2018-2019 school year report cards.
Arizona Revised Statutes § 15-241 requires the Arizona Department of Education, subject to final adoption by the State Board of Education, to develop an annual achievement profile for every public school in the state based on an A through F scale.
The system measures year to year student academic growth, proficiency on English language arts, math and science. It also includes the proficiency and academic growth of English language learners, indicators that an elementary student is ready for success in high school and that high school students are ready to succeed in a career or higher education and high school graduation rates. For more information on State Accountability,
A-F Summary:
The Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) is a survey of all public schools and school districts in the United States. This is completed and managed by the United States Department of Education. The CRDC measures student access to courses, programs, staff, and resources that impact education equity and opportunity for students. The CRDC is a longstanding and critical aspect of the overall enforcement and monitoring strategy used by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR). In addition, the CRDC is a valuable resource for other federal agencies, policymakers and researchers, educators and school officials, parents and students, and other members of the public who seek data on student equity and opportunity.
The data shown below are the most recent data available, from the 2020-2021 school year.
Arizona Revised Statutes §15-701.01 requires students (beginning with the graduating class of 2017) to pass The Arizona Civics Test in order to graduate from high school or obtain a high school equivalency certificate. The Arizona Civics Test is made up of 100 multiple choice questions and is based on the Civics portion of the Naturalization Test published by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
For more information on the Arizona Civics Test, click here: Arizona Civics Test | Arizona Department of Education (azed.gov).