Heritage Elementary School, Glendale AZ

Original Research by School Decision on Heritage Elementary School

Heritage Elementary School is a charter school in Glendale, Arizona, serving kindergarten through eighth grade. It operates as its own single-school district, a structure that keeps governance local but also means it functions outside a larger public school system. The student body, roughly several hundred students, is majority Hispanic, with a significant share of Black students and a smaller but notable white population. The school does not report the share of students who qualify for free or reduced-price meals, nor does it provide data on students with disabilities or English learners, so a parent would want to ask the school directly about those supports.

On state assessments, proficiency rates across math, English language arts, and science are below the midpoint among districts in Maricopa County. The overall picture: in most tested grades, fewer than half of students scored at the proficient level in math or ELA, and in science the rates are lower still. The school’s strongest results are in third- and fourth-grade ELA, where proficiency is near half. Math results trend downward in the middle grades. Seventh-grade math data was suppressed, and the state testing trends show only the most recent school year, so there is no multi-year pattern to examine. A parent may want to look into how the school supports students who are behind and what interventions it uses.

As a charter school, Heritage has autonomy over curriculum and staffing, but the lack of publicly available program offerings means there is no information to share about electives, specials, or enrichment. The school website, not provided in the data, would be the next stop for a parent seeking details on after-school activities or academic support.

Glendale is a large, sprawling suburb west of Phoenix, home to Luke Air Force Base, State Farm Stadium, and a mix of residential subdivisions and entertainment districts. The school sits in a part of the city that is auto-oriented, with limited pedestrian-friendly zones beyond the historic downtown and Westgate area. Housing values in the school’s ZIP code are near the state average for Arizona, and rents are roughly in line with the broader metro. The area has been growing modestly, driven partly by the Sports and Entertainment District development, but the school itself has no reported recent changes to its programming or facilities.

For a family considering Heritage, the main facts are clear: it is a relatively small kindergarten-through-middle school charter with a diverse student body and academic results that sit on the lower end among its county peers. The absence of data on special education, English learner support, and free-lunch eligibility is a gap worth filling with a direct call to the school. A parent who values a standalone charter setting in a growing part of the Phoenix metro may want to dig deeper into the school’s instructional approach and student outcomes beyond the single year of testing results available here.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 349%

School 49% · District 44% · ▲ 5 pts above district

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

Grade 438%

School 38% · District 37% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▼ 6 pts below state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

Grade 538%

School 38% · District 36% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▼ 4 pts below state median · ▼ 8 pts below county median

Grade 622%

School 22% · District 25% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▼ 14 pts below state median · ▼ 18 pts below county median

Grade 828%

School 28% · District 28%

▼ 4 pts below state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 344%

School 44% · District 43% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 4 pts above state median · even with county median

Grade 445%

School 45% · District 44% · ▲ 1 pts above district

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

Grade 539%

School 39% · District 37% · ▲ 2 pts above district

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

Grade 632%

School 32% · District 35% · ▼ 3 pts below district

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

Grade 743%

School 43% · District 43%

even with state median · ▼ 2 pts below county median

Grade 833%

School 33% · District 31% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▼ 7 pts below state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

Science

Grade 527%

School 27% · District 28% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▼ 10 pts below state median · ▼ 12 pts below county median

Grade 821%

School 21% · District 21%

▼ 12 pts below state median · ▼ 14 pts below county median

This schoolHeritage Elementary School (81076), 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.