Vista College Prep Sueno Park, Phoenix AZ

Original Research by School Decision on Vista College Prep Sueno Park

Vista College Prep Sueno Park is a charter school in Phoenix serving fifth through eighth grade. It is a regular school, not a magnet or alternative placement. The school is part of the Vista College Preparatory Inc. network. The student body is made up almost entirely of students who identify as Hispanic, with a small number of Black students and a very small number of white and multiracial students. Enrollment is distributed fairly evenly across the four middle school grades. Free or reduced-price lunch data is not in the record, and neither are counts for students with disabilities or English learner status. A parent may want to follow up with the school on those if they are relevant considerations.

Phoenix is a large, fast-growing urban center. The city’s economy is concentrated in technology, manufacturing, tourism, and services, but the school sits in a residential area near 45th Avenue, a location that reflects the broader car-oriented grid of wide roadways. Housing in the school’s ZIP code has seen a modest decline in value and in rents, a contrast to a national housing market where values are flat. The local housing market remains more affordable than the state average. The unemployment rate is moderate.

State testing results for the 2024-25 school year are available for math, English language arts, and science. Across the tested grades in math, the share of students scoring proficient is in the range of roughly one-fifth to just over a third. In English language arts, the picture is similarly mixed, with proficiency rates that rise from the low teens in fifth grade to just under half in seventh grade, then fall back slightly in eighth grade. Science results for eighth grade show a low proficiency rate, and the fifth-grade science result is suppressed in the data. Overall, the school’s combined proficiency across tested subjects places it in the bottom quarter when compared to other schools in Maricopa County. A parent may want to look into this further with the school to understand the academic program and how it meets students where they are.

The trend data shows only a single year of records for each subject, so no multi-year pattern is available to judge whether the school is improving or declining. Because the school only serves middle grades, the data does not include a high school graduation rate.

No recent district-level changes were found in a search, and no program offerings, staffing ratios, or discipline data are in the record. The web research did not surface any specific extracurriculars or academic tracks beyond what the core testing data shows.

For a parent considering this school, the central facts are a heavily Hispanic and urban student body, a charter structure that offers an alternative to the local traditional public middle schools, and test results that are lower than most other schools in the county. The school is part of an established charter network in Arizona, which may offer consistency in operations and curriculum. The combination of a new housing market that is somewhat softening and a school with weak test scores means a family should investigate the school’s instructional approach, any academic supports it provides, and how it prepares students for high school. The data does not support a claim about the quality of the school experience beyond these test results, so a visit and conversation with current families would be essential.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 516%

School 16% · District 19% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▼ 26 pts below state median · ▼ 30 pts below county median

Grade 636%

School 36% · District 30% · ▲ 6 pts above district

even with state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

Grade 729%

School 29% · District 24% · ▲ 5 pts above district

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

Grade 820%

School 20% · District 21% · ▼ 1 pts below district

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

English language arts

Grade 511%

School 11% · District 16% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▼ 30 pts below state median · ▼ 33 pts below county median

Grade 624%

School 24% · District 25% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▼ 19 pts below state median · ▼ 21 pts below county median

Grade 746%

School 46% · District 38% · ▲ 8 pts above district

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

Grade 841%

School 41% · District 36% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Science

Grade 813%

School 13% · District 13%

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

This schoolVista College Preparatory Inc. (91948), 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.