Original Research by School Decision on Incito Schools (91326)
Incito Schools is a small Arizona district serving kindergarten through eighth grade, operating two schools in the Phoenix area. The district's enrollment is modest, and its student body is predominantly Hispanic, with a substantial white population and smaller shares of Black, Asian, and multiracial students. The district does not serve high school grades, so there is no graduation rate to report.
State testing data for the most recent school year is largely suppressed, meaning the state did not release proficiency rates for individual grade levels. The available multi-year trend data, which aggregates across all tested grades, shows that in English language arts roughly a quarter of students met the state's proficiency benchmark, while in math the share was lower. These figures represent a single year of data, so there is no trend to compare against. Because the district is small, with a total enrollment that is modest for a K-8 system, the state may have suppressed grade-level results to protect student privacy. A parent looking for a clear picture of academic performance will find the available data limited and may want to discuss assessment results directly with the school.
The district's chronic absenteeism rate sits near the middle of the range among Maricopa County's districts. Per-pupil spending, by contrast, falls in the upper range compared to other districts in the county, which may reflect the costs of operating a small system. No data on free or reduced-price meal eligibility, special education identification, or English learner status was available, so the economic and support needs of the student body are not directly measurable from this data.
The student population is majority Hispanic, with a substantial white enrollment and smaller shares of Black, Asian, and multiracial students. The district runs two schools, both named Incito Schools, one of which is designated as Incito Schools-Phoenix. Both serve kindergarten through eighth grade. The district's grade band means there is no high school, so families will need to plan for a transition after eighth grade.
The district brief turned up no recent changes to curriculum, programming, property-tax measures, or pedagogy that would meet a four-year lasting-impact threshold. The district appears to be operating without major recent shifts in direction, at least as reflected in publicly available sources. A parent considering this district will want to look into the specific academic program at each of the two schools, as the available data does not provide a clear picture of day-to-day instruction or student outcomes beyond the limited testing snapshot.
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