Original Research by School Decision on Humanities and Sciences Academy Arizona
Humanities and Sciences Academy Arizona is a public charter high school in Tempe, serving grades nine through twelve. It is part of a small charter network, the Humanities and Sciences Academy of the United States, Inc., and operates as a regular school. The school is located on East Broadway Road in Tempe, a city that is an inner suburb of Phoenix and home to Arizona State University’s main campus. Tempe’s northern sections are fairly dense and urbanized, with a pedestrian-oriented district along Mill Avenue, light rail access, and high-rise development around Tempe Town Lake. Southern parts of the city are more auto-oriented with strip malls and office parks. ASU is the largest employer, and the downtown and campus are deeply intertwined.
The most defining characteristic of this school is its very small enrollment. There is a single student enrolled, in the eleventh grade, and no students in the other three high school grades. The student is identified as American Indian or Alaska Native. No data on English learner status or students with disabilities was available, and the free or reduced-price lunch count was also missing. Given the size, the school operates as an extremely small educational setting.
State testing data is essentially absent for this school. The only assessment results available come from the 2010-11 school year, and all proficiency rates for math, English language arts, and science are suppressed due to very small tested counts. The tested counts themselves were tiny across grades three through eight. Because the available data is both old and suppressed, it provides no usable picture of current academic performance. No proficiency index could be calculated, and the school could not be placed relative to districts in Maricopa County for this metric.
There is no graduation rate reported. This is not surprising given that the school currently has no seniors and only a single junior. Chronic absenteeism data is also not available, and no civil rights or discipline data is present. Programs such as Advanced Placement or career and technical education are not listed in the data, and there is no information on course access or staffing.
The district itself, the Humanities and Sciences Academy of the United States, Inc., had no recent policy changes or parent-relevant developments found in publicly reported materials. A search for updates returned only basic directory data.
For a family considering this school, the central takeaway is that it operates at an extremely small scale. With one student, it functions as a highly individualized environment. There is essentially no public academic performance data to evaluate, and no program offerings are documented in the sources available. The school’s charter status means it is publicly funded but independently run, which could mean more flexibility in curriculum or scheduling than a traditional district school, but the specifics are not detailed in the data. A parent interested in this school would need to contact it directly to understand its current instructional approach, graduation pathways, and what a typical student experience looks like. The Tempe locale offers a vibrant college-town atmosphere with many cultural and recreational amenities, and the presence of ASU may create opportunities for high school students to access university resources, though that is not confirmed in the data provided.
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