The top reported proficiency rate is 30% in English language arts. The lowest is 25% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Liberty Arts Academy
Liberty Arts Academy is a charter school in Mesa that serves kindergarten through eighth grade. It operates as a single-school charter district under the Kaizen Education Foundation, meaning it has its own governing board and is publicly funded but independent of the local district structure. For a K-8 school, the enrollment is moderate and spans each grade from kindergarten through eighth grade in roughly balanced cohorts. The student body is predominantly white and Hispanic, with smaller shares of students who identify as two or more races, Black, Asian, American Indian or Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander. Information on economic disadvantage and special education or English learner status was not available in the data, so a parent may want to ask the school directly about those supports and context.
Academically, the school’s state assessment results are reported in a limited way. Only fourth-grade math and fourth-grade English language arts have proficiency rates that are not suppressed; those rates show that about a quarter of fourth graders met the proficient or above threshold in math, and about three in ten did so in ELA. For all other tested grades in both subjects, and for science, the results are suppressed—likely because the number of tested students in those grade levels is small, which is common for a school of this size. The overall proficiency picture across all tested subjects and grades places the school below the midpoint when compared with other districts across Maricopa County. Because the school ends at eighth grade, there is no graduation rate to evaluate, and chronic absenteeism data was also not available.
Mesa itself is a large, sprawling suburban city with a modest downtown core near the Mesa Arts Center and the Mesa Arizona Temple. Daily life is overwhelmingly auto-oriented, with wide arterial roads and strip commercial lining most corridors. The school is located in the southeastern part of the city, near Power Road, an area that has seen continuing residential expansion as Mesa pushes eastward. Major nearby employers include Boeing at Falcon Field, Banner Health, and the Arizona State University Polytechnic campus and Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport farther east. For families considering this school, the commute will almost certainly require a car, and the surrounding neighborhood is typical of newer suburban development in the Phoenix metro area.
The school’s charter status means families choose it by applying, and its name suggests an arts emphasis, though the data provided does not include specific program descriptions or course offerings to confirm that. The district brief turned up no recent changes or referenda affecting the school. A parent interested in the school should inquire directly about the arts program, the availability of supports for students with disabilities or English learners, and how the school approaches the middle-grade years given that it does not extend into high school. The limited state testing data available points to an area where a family may wish to discuss academic progress and intervention practices with school staff.
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