The top reported proficiency rate is 47% in English language arts. The lowest is 30% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Del Rio Elementary School
Del Rio Elementary School serves third through fifth grade in Chino Valley, a rural town in Yavapai County that describes itself as known for its agriculture, home-town atmosphere, and cowboy culture. The school is a regular public school within the Chino Valley Unified District, and it draws from a community that is steadily growing. The town has seen residential construction and infrastructure investment, including a widened Highway 89 with improved sidewalks and roundabouts, and is developing an industrial park. There is no concentrated downtown core; school facilities, civic buildings, and parks are distributed along or near the highway corridor. The district operates four school facilities within town, and Del Rio is one of them, positioned between an early education center and the middle and high schools.
The student body at Del Rio is predominantly white, with a substantial Hispanic population. A very small number of students identify as American Indian or Alaska Native, and the school has a negligible share of students who are Black, Asian, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, or multiracial. The school serves a grade band in which state testing is administered, and results are available. Those results show a pattern across subjects and grades that a parent may want to review with the school. In English language arts, third grade and fourth grade outperformed fifth grade. In math, the trend by grade is in the opposite direction, with performance differences across the three grade levels. In science, which is tested only in fifth grade, the share of students meeting proficiency was below half. When compared with other entities in Yavapai County on an overall proficiency measure that averages across tested subjects and grades, Del Rio Elementary sits below the midpoint of districts in the county for which that metric was reported. There is no prior-year data in the available record, so it is not possible to say whether these results represent improvement or decline. The school does not serve high school grades, so there is no graduation rate to examine.
The school is not a charter and does not have a magnet designation. Information on Title I status, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, special education enrollment, and English learner enrollment was not available in the data, so the economic and learning support context for the student body cannot be fully described from this account. Data on discipline, course access, staffing, attendance, and chronic absenteeism was also absent. The district brief turned up no recent parent-relevant changes such as referendums, curriculum shifts, or property-tax developments that would alter the picture for a family considering this school.
For a family looking at Del Rio Elementary, the school represents a straightforward option within a growing rural town served by a small district with a clear grade progression from early education through high school. The housing market in the area shows home values and rents that, while not low, are priced at a level that is less expensive than in many parts of the state and country. The community has a car-dependent layout, and most residents commute by car. The town's growth is visible in new construction and planned industrial development, but the area retains a rural, spread-out character with recreational amenities like hiking trails and lakes within a short drive. A parent considering Del Rio will want to inquire directly with the school about student support services and economic demographics, as those pieces are not captured here.
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