Legacy Traditional School - Queen Creek, Queen Creek AZ

Original Research by School Decision on Legacy Traditional School - Queen Creek

Legacy Traditional School – Queen Creek is a charter school serving kindergarten through ninth grade, located in one of Arizona’s fastest-growing suburban communities. The school is part of the Legacy Traditional Schools network, and its grade span means it covers elementary and middle school years with a single high school grade added at the top. Because ninth grade enrollment is reported as zero, the school’s upper end may still be phasing in, and no graduation rate data applies here.

Academically, the school shows a mixed picture. On the 2024-25 Arizona state assessments, math proficiency rates start solid in third grade and decline as students get older, with a notable drop by eighth grade. English language arts proficiency is stronger overall, with several grade levels posting rates that are a parent’s typical point of reference for a school this size, though sixth grade dips below that level. Science results for fifth and eighth grade are moderate. Taken together, the school’s overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades places it in the top quartile of schools relative to other districts in Pinal County. That is a meaningful point of comparison, since many families evaluating schools in this part of the Phoenix metro area will be looking at options across a wide, fast-growing county.

The student body is predominantly white, with a substantial Hispanic population and smaller shares of Asian, Black, and multiracial students. Data on free or reduced-price meal eligibility, special education enrollment, and English learner status are not available, so a family seeking to understand the school’s socioeconomic diversity or support services would need to ask the school directly. Civil rights and discipline data are also absent from available records. The school is not a Title I school, and the source does not indicate whether that status means it did not qualify or data was simply missing.

The school sits in Queen Creek, a town that was founded as an agricultural community and has transformed into a rapidly expanding suburban hub. It retains working farms, pecan groves, and agritainment destinations like Schnepf Farms and the Queen Creek Olive Mill, but the dominant built environment is master-planned residential subdivisions spreading across former farmland and desert. The town’s population has grown very rapidly in recent years, and development continues to push outward. Walkability is limited; there is no scheduled bus service, and commercial and civic destinations are strung along arterial roads. The median home value in the area has been moderately high, and the housing market reflects a new-build, relatively affluent residential base. The median household income in the area also points toward an upwardly mobile demographic.

The school’s parental district, Legacy Traditional School – Queen Creek, is listed as the overseeing entity, but the district brief found little in the way of recent changes of lasting impact to report. A family looking for information on strategic priorities, facility plans, or program expansions will need to go to the school or its network for that.

Civic anchors in the community include the Queen Creek Library, San Tan Mountain Regional Park, a performing arts center, and an equestrian center. But the town is spread over a large area, and school campuses, including this one, are sited within residential subdivisions rather than clustered near a walkable downtown. The school itself is a charter, which means it is publicly funded but operates independently of the local school district, and families choose to enroll rather than being assigned by address. For parents weighing options in the southeast Phoenix metro area, this school offers a top-quartile academic profile within Pinal County, with the caveat that the available data shows a math proficiency pattern that softens in the later middle grades—something to look into further with the school. The community context is one of rapid growth, single-family home development, and limited transit, suiting families who are comfortable with a car-dependent suburban environment and who are drawn to the area’s relatively new housing stock and family-oriented amenities.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 370%

School 70% · District 68% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▲ 26 pts above state median · ▲ 35 pts above county median

Grade 460%

School 60% · District 61% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▲ 16 pts above state median · ▲ 28 pts above county median

Grade 552%

School 52% · District 52%

▲ 10 pts above state median · ▲ 23 pts above county median

Grade 641%

School 41% · District 41%

▲ 5 pts above state median · ▲ 16 pts above county median

Grade 752%

School 52% · District 52%

▲ 20 pts above state median · ▲ 32 pts above county median

Grade 825%

School 25% · District 25%

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

English language arts

Grade 349%

School 49% · District 49%

▲ 9 pts above state median · ▲ 19 pts above county median

Grade 465%

School 65% · District 65%

▲ 18 pts above state median · ▲ 28 pts above county median

Grade 551%

School 51% · District 50% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 10 pts above state median · ▲ 23 pts above county median

Grade 643%

School 43% · District 43%

even with state median · ▲ 13 pts above county median

Grade 772%

School 72% · District 71% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 29 pts above state median · ▲ 38 pts above county median

Grade 866%

School 66% · District 65% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 26 pts above state median · ▲ 31 pts above county median

Science

Grade 544%

School 44% · District 44%

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▲ 16 pts above county median

Grade 839%

School 39% · District 39%

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

This schoolLegacy Traditional School - Queen Creek (92610), 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.