Harvest Preparatory Academy San Luis Az, San Luis AZ

Original Research by School Decision on Harvest Preparatory Academy San Luis Az

Harvest Preparatory Academy San Luis is a charter school serving kindergarten through eighth grade in the border city of San Luis, Arizona. The school operates under the Harvest Power Community Development Group, a charter organization that runs a small network of schools in the state. Because the school ends at eighth grade, there is no high school graduation rate to report—a natural gap given the grade band.

San Luis is a fast-growing binational city with strong economic and family ties to San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora, just across the border. The local economy is built around retail, agriculture, manufacturing, and border commerce. Most students live in a community where housing has remained relatively affordable compared to the state as a whole, and the city has been one of Arizona’s fastest-growing municipalities in recent years. The school’s location on 10th Avenue places it within a largely car-dependent city where downtown commercial activity clusters near the port of entry, and residential subdivisions extend north and east.

Academically, state assessment results from the most recent year show a range of proficiency rates across grades and subjects. In math, proficiency rates for tested grades were reported in the low-to-mid range, with a noticeable dip at the upper end: eighth-grade math proficiency was particularly low. In English language arts, the pattern was uneven—fourth and eighth graders posted higher rates than sixth graders, for instance, but overall the shares of students meeting state standards were modest. Science results, available for fifth grade, also showed a low proficiency rate. The school’s overall proficiency index across all tested subjects and grades places it below the midpoint among districts in Yuma County. A parent may want to discuss with the school how it supports students who are not yet meeting grade-level expectations, especially in the later middle school grades, where the data suggests a softening.

The school’s enrollment is overwhelmingly Hispanic, reflecting the demographics of San Luis itself. Information on the share of students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, receive special education services, or are classified as English learners was not available in the data we reviewed. Those are meaningful gaps for a family trying to understand the level of student support, so a parent may wish to ask the school directly about these resources and how they are allocated.

As a charter school, Harvest Preparatory Academy operates with some independence from the local traditional district structure, though the community’s other elementary and middle schools are run by the Gadsden Elementary School District. The district brief for Harvest Power Community Development Group did not turn up any recent changes in curriculum, leadership, or facilities that would be visible from public records. The school’s environment—class size, access to specialized courses, discipline practices—was not captured in the available data, so a family considering the school would want to tour and ask about those details firsthand.

For a family looking at this school, the picture is of a charter elementary and middle school in a fast-growing, predominantly Hispanic border city. Academic results overall are mixed, with pockets of higher performance in some grades and subjects but a clear soft spot in middle-school math and science. The absence of program data—no Advanced Placement or dual-credit offerings, which would not apply to this grade band anyway—is expected, but a parent might still want to know what enrichment, arts, or extracurricular options exist, especially as students approach eighth grade and prepare for the transition to high school.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 328%

School 28% · District 29% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▼ 16 pts below state median · ▼ 5 pts below county median

Grade 447%

School 47% · District 34% · ▲ 13 pts above district

▲ 3 pts above state median · ▲ 10 pts above county median

Grade 527%

School 27% · District 27%

▼ 15 pts below state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

Grade 633%

School 33% · District 19% · ▲ 14 pts above district

▼ 3 pts below state median · ▲ 10 pts above county median

Grade 817%

School 17% · District 12% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▼ 15 pts below state median · even with county median

English language arts

Grade 425%

School 25% · District 28% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▼ 22 pts below state median · ▼ 13 pts below county median

Grade 537%

School 37% · District 33% · ▲ 4 pts above district

▼ 4 pts below state median · ▲ 5 pts above county median

Grade 621%

School 21% · District 28% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▼ 22 pts below state median · ▼ 11 pts below county median

Grade 727%

School 27% · District 30% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▼ 16 pts below state median · ▼ 5 pts below county median

Grade 843%

School 43% · District 36% · ▲ 7 pts above district

▲ 3 pts above state median · ▲ 12 pts above county median

Science

Grade 517%

School 17% · District 23% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▼ 20 pts below state median · ▼ 11 pts below county median

This schoolHarvest Power Community Development Group Inc. (79501), same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.