The top reported proficiency rate is 94% in Science. The lowest is 76% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Basis Peoria Primary
BASIS Peoria Primary serves kindergarten through fourth grade in northwestern Peoria, as a charter school within the statewide BASIS network. The school offers only early elementary grades, so there is no graduation rate, no advanced coursework, and no data on chronic absenteeism or discipline—those metrics simply do not apply at this grade band.
The student body draws from families who have chosen the BASIS model. Asian students make up the largest share, comprising most of the enrollment, followed by white students and then a smaller share of Hispanic students. The racial composition is a characteristic of who has applied and enrolled, not a feature the school itself controls. Free-or-reduced-price lunch data was not reported, and neither were counts of students with disabilities or English learners, so the full economic and support-need picture is not available from the data on hand.
On state testing, performance is well above the midpoint among Maricopa County districts, landing in the top quartile. In third grade, the share of students scoring proficient in both math and English language arts was high. Fourth-grade math was also high, and fourth-grade English language arts was higher. The most recent science results available are from a prior testing cycle, and those too showed a very high proficiency rate. With results at this level across all tested subjects and grades, the academic profile is clearly strong for an elementary school.
The school is located in a rapidly growing part of Peoria, a car-dependent suburban city northwest of Phoenix. Peoria’s population has expanded substantially in recent decades, and development continues, including a new semiconductor plant and a corridor of industrial and commercial projects planned along the Loop 101 freeway. Housing values in the area are above the state average, and rents reflect that as well. Families moving here for the school should expect a low-density suburban environment with master-planned communities, commercial nodes like the P83 Entertainment District and Park West, and access to Lake Pleasant Regional Park and miles of trails.
The school’s parent organization, BASIS Charter Schools Inc., had no recent parent-relevant changes found in public record review, so the narrative around the network’s direction or potential shifts at this campus is simply not available. What is clear is that this is a concentrated, high-performing early elementary program inside a growing outer-ring suburb, with test scores that put it among the top-performing schools in the county. A family considering BASIS Peoria Primary should weigh whether the BASIS approach fits their child and whether the surrounding community’s growth, housing costs, and suburban character match their preferences. The school itself offers no ambiguity on academic output for the grades it serves: the results speak clearly.
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