Synergy Public School, Phoenix AZ

Original Research by School Decision on Synergy Public School

Synergy Public School is a charter school in Phoenix serving kindergarten through eighth grade. It sits within a single-school charter district, Synergy Public School Inc., and functions as a regular elementary and middle school, not a magnet or alternative program. Its enrollment is mid-sized for its grade band, and the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic, with smaller shares of Black, White, Asian, and Native American students. The share of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch was not reported in the available data, and information on special education and English learner populations was also missing.

Phoenix is a large, car-oriented city that has grown rapidly over recent decades. The city’s economy mixes high-technology manufacturing, services, tourism, and transportation, anchored by Sky Harbor International Airport. Housing values and rents in the school’s ZIP code have softened slightly over the past year, moving in the opposite direction of national trends. The school’s location on West Bethany Home Road places it in a residential and commercial corridor of the city’s central corridor.

State assessment results from the most recent school year show proficiency rates that are well below state averages across elementary and middle grades. In math, the reported rates for third and fifth grade students were low, and results for fourth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade were suppressed due to small group sizes. In English language arts, reported proficiency was low in third, fourth, fifth, and seventh grades, with sixth and eighth grade results suppressed. Science proficiency in fifth grade was also low, and eighth grade science was suppressed. A multi-year trend view, covering only one year of data, shows no meaningful change. Because the school does not serve high school grades, there is no graduation rate to examine.

The overall proficiency picture places Synergy Public School in the bottom quartile among districts in Maricopa County when measured across tested subjects and grades. This comparison uses the county’s many districts as a reference frame and is based on a composite index of reported rates. The school’s chronic absenteeism rate was not available, so no comparison there is possible.

A parent considering this school will find a charter option in a growing, diverse city with a student population that is heavily Hispanic and a school that is oriented toward the elementary and middle years only. The academic results are soft compared to peer districts across the county, and a parent may want to ask the school directly about its instructional approach, support for struggling students, and any steps being taken to raise performance. The absence of data on economic disadvantage, special education, and English learner services means those dimensions are not visible from the public record alone. No recent changes in the district’s operations or programming were found in publicly reported sources, so there is little to suggest recent upheaval or new initiatives. The school’s basic mission as a KG-8 charter in central Phoenix is clear; the academic record on the state tests is what a parent will want to weigh most carefully.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 327%

School 27% · District 24% · ▲ 3 pts above district

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

Grade 519%

School 19% · District 17% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▼ 23 pts below state median · ▼ 27 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 321%

School 21% · District 19% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▼ 19 pts below state median · ▼ 23 pts below county median

Grade 429%

School 29% · District 25% · ▲ 4 pts above district

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

Grade 521%

School 21% · District 20% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▼ 20 pts below state median · ▼ 23 pts below county median

Grade 731%

School 31% · District 31%

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

Science

Grade 514%

School 14% · District 14%

▼ 23 pts below state median · ▼ 25 pts below county median

This schoolSynergy Public School Inc. (92981), 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.