Original Research by School Decision on Arizona Collaborative Learning Partners Inc. (1002079)
Arizona Collaborative Learning Partners Inc. is a small kindergarten-through-eighth-grade district operating within Maricopa County. The entity is a charter district and its single school, Virtual Preparation Academy of Arizona, is listed as open. The district serves a small total enrollment across grades K through 8. Because the district stops at eighth grade, there is no graduation rate, and no such metric applies here.
The student body is diverse. A little over half the students are Hispanic. About one in five are white, and roughly one in six are Black. Smaller shares of students identify as American Indian or Alaska Native, and as Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander. The enrollment is small enough that a parent considering this district should expect a very close-knit setting, where each grade cohort is modest in size. Data on the share of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch, as well as counts for students with disabilities and English learners, were not available. A family looking into this district may wish to ask the school directly about its support for special populations.
State assessment results for the 2024-25 school year are almost entirely suppressed. For math, English language arts, and science, the proficiency rates at every tested grade level are listed as suppressed, meaning the counts of students tested were too small to report publicly without risking identification of individual students. The few tested counts that are reported confirm very small group sizes. For example, fifth grade had about a dozen students tested in both math and ELA, and sixth, seventh, and eighth grades had similar numbers. Science results for fifth and eighth grade are also suppressed. A single-year multi-year trend line shows a 19 percent proficiency rate for ELA across all grades combined, but that figure is from the same single year and is based on the same suppressed underlying grade-level results, so it offers little actionable detail. A parent should understand that the standard state accountability measures cannot produce a clear public picture of academic performance at this district because of the small numbers involved. This is a common situation for very small charter schools and does not necessarily indicate weak performance; it simply means the public data does not reveal it.
Because the district's proficiency data is missing at the entity level, the comparison that places this district among Maricopa County's districts could not calculate a position for overall proficiency. No comparison is available for graduation rate, chronic absenteeism, or per-pupil spending for the same reason. A district brief searched for recent parent-relevant changes and found only basic operational data and budget forms, with no lasting changes to report.
For a parent or resident, this is a district that is very small, serves only elementary and middle grades, and operates as a single-school charter. Its academic results cannot be assessed through public state testing data because the student counts are too low for the state to release them. The student body is racially and ethnically diverse. A family considering this district would be choosing an intimate school environment and would likely need to gather additional information directly from the school about curriculum, instructional approach, and student outcomes, as the public record offers little on which to base a judgment.
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