The top reported proficiency rate is 73% in English language arts. The lowest is 55% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Lincoln Preparatory Academy (92657)
Lincoln Preparatory Academy operates as a single-school charter district in Maricopa County, serving grades six through twelve. The school is the only campus under this district, and publicly reported search results turned up no recent referenda, property-tax changes, or other district-level shifts that would directly affect parents. Because it is a charter entity, the usual school board elections and boundary politics that matter in a traditional district do not apply in the same way here. The enrollment is mid-sized for a secondary school, drawing a student body that is majority white, with a substantial Asian cohort and smaller shares of Hispanic, black, and multiracial students. Free-or-reduced-price lunch data was not available, so the economic composition of the student population is not clear from the record.
On state assessments for the latest testing year, Lincoln Prep’s performance sits well above the midpoint among Maricopa County’s districts, landing in the top quartile for overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades. In English language arts, proficiency rates across sixth, seventh, and eighth grades are consistently high, with the strongest results in sixth and eighth grades. Mathematics proficiency is lower than ELA, running slightly above half of students meeting the bar in each middle-grade level, which is still a strong showing relative to county peers. Eighth-grade science results follow a similar pattern, with a majority of students reaching proficiency. The two-year trend data shows ELA proficiency holding steady at a high level, while math holds flat; the record only covers a single year of paired data, so no meaningful trend direction can be inferred. The school’s chronic absenteeism rate is in the top quartile among county districts, meaning it is low, which signals that most students attend regularly.
The school does not serve the full K-through-12 range, so there is no graduation rate to report. That is a function of the grade span, not an omission of the data. Parents looking at the upper end of the school will want to investigate directly with Lincoln Prep what course pathways, dual-enrollment options, or college-preparatory programming are available for high-school students, as that information was not captured in the available data. Similarly, special education and English learner counts were not reported, so a family with a child needing those supports would want to contact the school to understand what services are in place.
Per-pupil spending is in the middle-to-upper range among Maricopa County districts, which is unsurprising for a charter school that often operates with a leaner administrative structure than a traditional district. The school’s locale data was not provided, so the setting—whether urban, suburban, or rural—is not known from this record. Parents considering Lincoln Prep should visit the campus and talk to current families to get a feel for the environment, culture, and the full scope of the high school program, since the available data paints a clear picture of strong middle-school test performance and regular attendance but leaves the upper-grade experience largely uncharacterized.
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