Original Research by School Decision on Academy of Building Industries Inc. (85540)
Academy of Building Industries Inc. serves grades nine through twelve as a single-district charter entity in Mohave County, Arizona. The district runs one school, also named Academy of Building Industries. Enrollment is small and has a narrow age band: about a hundred students spread across four grades, with the largest group in grade eleven and the smallest in grade nine. The student body is overwhelmingly white, with a modest share of Hispanic students and small numbers of Black and Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander students. Data on economic disadvantage, special education identification, and English learner status were not available, so a parent would need to ask the school directly about those supports.
State testing data for the district was suppressed, meaning academic proficiency rates are not reported for public view. Because the district has only a single year of achievement data and that year is suppressed, there is no usable measure of how students perform in math or English language arts. The comparison among Mohave County's districts shows the same gap: the overall proficiency metric does not apply because the entity's value is missing. A graduation rate was also not available, so it is unclear what share of students finish high school in four years. The one metric that does place the district is chronic absenteeism, where the rate lands in the bottom quartile among the county’s districts. That is a significant soft spot and a parent should look into this further with the school to understand attendance patterns and what supports are in place.
Per-pupil spending falls in the upper half of the middle range among Mohave County's districts, which suggests the district is not operating on a bare minimum budget relative to its peers. No information was found on course offerings, career and technical education pathways, dual enrollment, or Advanced Placement. Given the school’s name and trade focus—publicly reported as a vocational charter—a parent should confirm what specific industry credentials or building-trades programs are actually offered, as the data payload does not include program details.
The district’s research flagged no recent parent-relevant changes such as boundary shifts, property tax measures, or curriculum overhauls. The brief notes that available results describe the charter’s vocational trade focus but no actionable changes for families. A reader should treat that as a neutral signal: the district may simply have been stable rather than inactive.
Mohave County is large and includes a mix of small cities, unincorporated areas, and rural communities, but the payload provided no locale brief for this district. There is no location data at all—no street, no city, no rural or urban classification. A parent cannot tell from this data whether the school is in a town, on the edge of a city, or in a remote area. That gap matters for anyone trying to assess commute, access to services, or housing options nearby.
Overall, this is a thin-profile district. A parent considering Academy of Building Industries will need to gather information directly from the school on academic outcomes, graduation rates, special education and English learner services, attendance supports, and the specific career-technical curriculum. The chronic absenteeism figure is the one clear signal the data provides, and it warrants a conversation. The vocational focus may appeal to families seeking a hands-on high school pathway, but the data does not confirm what that pathway includes.
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