Leman Academy of Excellence Sierra Vista, Sierra Vista AZ

Original Research by School Decision on Leman Academy of Excellence Sierra Vista

Leman Academy of Excellence Sierra Vista was a charter school in Sierra Vista, Arizona, that served elementary and middle grades. The school is now inactive, meaning it no longer operates. Any academic information available comes from a single school year ending in 2017, which is the most recent data on record. For a family looking at this school today, the first thing to know is that it does not exist as an active option.

In that 2016-17 year, students in grades three through six took the state’s AzMERIT assessments. Performance varied noticeably by grade and subject. In math, the share of students scoring at or above proficient ranged from around one-third in grade four to just over three-fifths in grade five. English language arts results were slightly more consistent, with roughly half to three-fifths of students meeting the bar across the four tested grades. Science was tested only in grade four, where about half of students reached the proficient level. When all tested subjects and grades are averaged together, the school’s overall proficiency index placed it in the top quarter of comparison among districts in Cochise County. That is a strong relative position, though the data is from a single year and nearly a decade old.

Sierra Vista itself is a community built around Fort Huachuca, a U.S. Army post that serves as the city’s dominant employer. Government jobs account for nearly half of local employment, and the professional and technical sector is unusually large because of Army contracts. The city has a suburban character with strip commercial corridors, a public transit system called Vista Transit, and a large land area that results in a low population density. The population has shown a slight decline in recent years, and housing values in the area sit below the state average. The local mix includes military families, college students (the University of Arizona and Cochise College both have a presence), and retirees.

No enrollment count, demographic breakdown, or free-or-reduced-price lunch data was available for this school, so the profile of the student body is unknown. Because the school served middle grades, it would not have a graduation rate—that metric applies only to high schools. No information on programs, course access, discipline, or staffing was reported. The district, Edkey Inc. – Pathfinder Academy, showed no recent public changes of note in district records.

For someone researching this school, the main takeaway is that it is no longer active, and the academic snapshot that exists is from a single year now many years past. A parent or resident looking at the Sierra Vista area today would need to consider the current set of active charter and traditional district schools in Cochise County instead.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 345%

School 45% · District 56% · ▼ 11 pts below district

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

Grade 435%

School 35% · District 63% · ▼ 28 pts below district

▼ 9 pts below state median · even with county median

Grade 562%

School 62% · District 60% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▲ 20 pts above state median · ▲ 22 pts above county median

Grade 647%

School 47% · District 49% · ▼ 2 pts below district

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

English language arts

Grade 351%

School 51% · District 52% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▲ 11 pts above state median · ▲ 15 pts above county median

Grade 453%

School 53% · District 73% · ▼ 20 pts below district

▲ 6 pts above state median · ▲ 7 pts above county median

Grade 562%

School 62% · District 57% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▲ 21 pts above state median · ▲ 17 pts above county median

Grade 647%

School 47% · District 67% · ▼ 20 pts below district

▲ 4 pts above state median · even with county median

Science

Grade 452%

School 52% · district not reported

▼ 4 pts below state median

This schoolEdkey Inc. - Pathfinder Academy (81045), 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.