Legacy Traditional School - North Chandler, Chandler AZ

Original Research by School Decision on Legacy Traditional School - North Chandler

Legacy Traditional School - North Chandler is a charter school serving kindergarten through eighth grade in Chandler, a large Phoenix-area suburb. The school operates as a regular public charter, not a magnet or alternative program, and its enrollment is sizable for a K-8 campus. The student body is diverse, with Hispanic and white students each making up a substantial share, and with notable representation of Black, Asian, and multiracial students. Information about economic disadvantage and special education enrollment was not available in the data, so a parent may want to ask the school directly about supports such as free or reduced-price lunch and individualized education programs.

Chandler itself is a fast-growing tech and semiconductor hub, anchored by employers like Intel, Wells Fargo, and Northrop Grumman. The city is divided by major freeways into North, West, and South sections. The school sits in North Chandler, a largely suburban area of master-planned subdivisions and corporate campuses. Housing values in the area are high relative to state and national benchmarks, though they have softened recently. This is a car-dependent environment; daily life relies on driving, and the historic downtown core is small.

On state assessments, the school’s performance varies notably by subject and grade. In English language arts, proficiency rates reach their highest point in the upper middle school grades, while elementary grades show more moderate results. Math proficiency is lower across most grades, with a clear dip in the later years of middle school. Science proficiency falls in a middle range. Overall proficiency, averaged across all tested grades and subjects, places the school above the midpoint among districts in Maricopa County. This is a solid relative position, though the uneven results by grade and subject mean a family should look closely at how a particular student’s grade level performs.

Because the school ends at eighth grade, it has no high school graduation rate to report. Multi-year trend data was limited to a single year, making it difficult to assess improvement over time—another area where direct inquiry with the school may be useful. The school’s program offerings were not provided in the data, so this narrative cannot speak to the availability of electives, arts, athletics, or specialized tracks. A family considering the school would want to investigate those directly.

The district-level context for Legacy Traditional School - North Chandler shows no recent major changes publicly reported, and the school itself appears to be an established K-8 charter option within a large, economically dynamic city. The combination of above-midpoint county proficiency but uneven grade-level results, along with missing information on student support services and programs, suggests this school likely fits a family that values a charter setting with a track record that is above average relative to its county peers but not uniformly strong, and that is willing to research what specific supports and enrichment are available at the campus level.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 338%

School 38% · District 35% · ▲ 3 pts above district

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

Grade 448%

School 48% · District 48%

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

Grade 543%

School 43% · District 43%

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

Grade 625%

School 25% · District 26% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▼ 11 pts below state median · ▼ 15 pts below county median

Grade 736%

School 36% · District 35% · ▲ 1 pts above district

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

Grade 823%

School 23% · District 23%

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

English language arts

Grade 339%

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

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

Grade 453%

School 53% · District 53%

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

Grade 547%

School 47% · District 47%

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

Grade 645%

School 45% · District 46% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▲ 2 pts above state median · even with county median

Grade 766%

School 66% · District 68% · ▼ 2 pts below district

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

Grade 858%

School 58% · District 57% · ▲ 1 pts above district

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

Science

Grade 542%

School 42% · District 42%

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

Grade 853%

School 53% · District 53%

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

This schoolLegacy Traditional School - North Chandler (850101), 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.