Chandler Traditional Academy - Goodman, Chandler AZ

Original Research by School Decision on Chandler Traditional Academy - Goodman

Chandler Traditional Academy - Goodman is a regular public school serving pre-kindergarten through sixth grade in Chandler, Arizona. It is part of the Chandler Unified School District, the largest employer in the city after Intel and Wells Fargo. The school sits on Knox Road in west Chandler, a sprawling Phoenix suburb that combines master-planned subdivisions with a high concentration of semiconductor and technology employers. The area is car-oriented, with wide arterial roads and freeway corridors, and the everyday texture is suburban.

The school enrolls a student body of about that size for an elementary campus. The largest racial or ethnic group is white, followed by Asian and Hispanic students, with smaller shares of students who are Black, American Indian or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, or of two or more races. Data on the share of students who qualify for free or reduced-price meals is not available, so readers cannot assess the school’s economic composition from this profile. Information on the percentage of students with disabilities or those learning English is also missing. A family that wants to understand the school’s full support needs would need to ask the school directly.

State testing results for the 2024-25 school year show that overall proficiency across math, reading, and science lands in the top quartile relative to districts in Maricopa County. That is a strong position compared with peer districts. In math, proficiency rates start solidly at the lower elementary grades and then decline notably by sixth grade. In English language arts, the school’s results are more consistent, with rates in a moderate range across grades three through six. Science results for fifth grade fall in a similar range. The pattern suggests that the school’s early elementary instruction is a particular strength, while the transition to higher-level math in the upper grades may be a soft spot that a parent of a rising middle-school student may want to look into further with the school.

Because Chandler Traditional Academy - Goodman serves only up to sixth grade, no graduation rate applies here. The school does not offer high school pathways, AP, or career and technical programs; those are found at the district’s secondary campuses. What the school does offer is a traditional elementary experience inside a district noted for its scale and stability. The wider housing context in Chandler reflects a market where home values and rents are above the national median, and the monthly mortgage cost is higher than typical rent, a sign of a moderately expensive metro area. The city’s population has grown substantially, driven by tech-sector expansion along the freeway corridors, and the school district has grown with it.

For a family looking at Chandler Traditional Academy - Goodman, the takeaway is a school with solid early-grade academics and a diverse student body in a suburban, technology-anchored city. The dip in upper-grade math and the missing demographic context on poverty and special populations are gaps worth following up on. The overall proficiency picture is favorable when measured against other districts in the county, which gives it a positive academic reputation among area elementary schools.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 380%

School 80% · District 44% · ▲ 36 pts above district

▲ 36 pts above state median · ▲ 34 pts above county median

Grade 477%

School 77% · District 30% · ▲ 47 pts above district

▲ 33 pts above state median · ▲ 30 pts above county median

Grade 569%

School 69% · District 53% · ▲ 16 pts above district

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

Grade 646%

School 46% · District 26% · ▲ 20 pts above district

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

English language arts

Grade 362%

School 62% · District 35% · ▲ 27 pts above district

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

Grade 466%

School 66% · District 32% · ▲ 34 pts above district

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

Grade 564%

School 64% · District 32% · ▲ 32 pts above district

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

Grade 665%

School 65% · District 58% · ▲ 7 pts above district

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

Science

Grade 561%

School 61% · District 48% · ▲ 13 pts above district

▲ 24 pts above state median · ▲ 22 pts above county median

This schoolChandler Unified District #80 (4242), 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.