Original Research by School Decision on Rcb College Preparatory Academy
RCB College Preparatory Academy is a small charter high school in Peoria, Arizona, serving grades nine through twelve. It operates under the AIBT Non-Profit Charter High School Inc., a tiny charter organization. The school’s name signals a college-preparatory mission, but beyond that label the publicly available record is remarkably thin.
Enrollment is extremely small. Just under two dozen students attend, divided across the four high school grades. The senior class is the largest, with a handful of students, while the sophomore class is the smallest, a single student. This kind of size is unusual for a regular high school and means the school operates at a scale more typical of a very small alternative program or a specialized micro-school.
The student body is roughly half White and about two-fifths Hispanic, with one Black student. No data on economic disadvantage, special education, or English learner status is reported. That absence may simply reflect that the school did not submit those counts, but it means a family cannot gauge how the school supports diverse learning needs from the numbers alone.
The most significant gap is in academic outcomes. State assessment results are not available for this school. The four-year graduation rate is also not reported. The comparison set—relative to districts in Maricopa County—marks these metrics as not applicable because the school’s values are missing. For a high school that explicitly names college preparation in its title, the lack of any public performance data is a major caveat. A parent considering this school would want to ask directly about state testing history, graduate destinations, and whether students take college entrance exams.
No information on course offerings, Advanced Placement, dual enrollment, or career and technical pathways is provided. Staffing ratios, discipline rates, and attendance patterns are also absent. The school’s physical location is on West Cactus Road in Peoria, but no specifics about the facility or campus life are available.
Peoria itself is a rapidly growing city northwest of Phoenix. Originally an agricultural settlement, it has shifted toward resort and leisure living and is now pursuing an industrial corridor along the Loop 303 freeway, anchored by a major semiconductor plant. The city is car-dependent, with commercial life spread across nodes like the P83 Entertainment District and Park West. Spring training baseball at the Peoria Sports Complex is a seasonal draw, and Lake Pleasant Regional Park provides outdoor recreation to the north. Home values in the area sit above the state median, though they have softened slightly in the recent year. The city’s growth has been steady, with new master-planned communities and an expanding tax base.
For a family, the appeal of RCB College Preparatory Academy would likely hinge on its very small size and the possibility of a tightly knit, individualized setting. But the near-total absence of academic and operational data means the school operates largely outside the usual public accountability framework. Without test scores, a graduation rate, or program information, a parent has little to go on except what the school itself can share in a direct conversation. That conversation would be essential before any enrollment decision.
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