The top reported proficiency rate is 50% in English language arts. The lowest is 32% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Basha Elementary
Basha Elementary is a regular public school in Chandler that serves students from preschool through sixth grade. It is part of the Chandler Unified School District, a large system serving a sprawling Phoenix-area suburb that has grown into a recognized semiconductor and technology hub. The city’s employment base is anchored by Intel and other major employers, and its built environment is car-oriented: wide arterial roads, freeway corridors, and master-planned subdivisions. A historic downtown core exists, but most daily life—including school commutes—happens along the freeway-facing commercial strips. Basha sits in the southern part of the city, an area shaped by the same suburban growth that has defined Chandler’s expansion over recent decades.
The school enrolls a student body that is predominantly white, with a substantial Hispanic population and smaller shares of Asian, Black, Native American, and multiracial students. Data on economic disadvantage is not reported for this school, so a family wanting to understand the share of students from low-income households would need to ask the school directly. Similarly, information on the percentage of students with disabilities or those learning English is not available in these records, a gap that may matter for parents weighing support services.
Academically, Basha Elementary’s performance across state assessments places it above the midpoint among districts in Maricopa County when viewed as a single proficiency index across tested subjects and grades. That is a reasonable starting point, but the subject- and grade-level results show variation. In mathematics, the school’s proficiency rates rise and fall across grades, with third and sixth graders performing more strongly than fourth and fifth graders. In English language arts, the pattern is similarly uneven: fourth and sixth graders post noticeably higher results than third and fifth graders. Science is tested only in fifth grade, and the proficiency rate there is lower than what the school achieves in math and reading at other grade levels. A parent may want to look into the drop between fourth and fifth grade in ELA and math, and into the fifth grade science performance, with the school to understand whether those patterns reflect cohort differences or something about the grade’s instruction.
The district itself reported no major recent changes that are publicly documented in a form that would affect how families experience the school. That may simply mean the information was not captured in the sources searched, not that nothing is happening.
The housing market in the area is expensive. Home values sit well above the national median, and rents are elevated as well, meaning that families moving into the neighborhood for the school should expect a higher-cost environment. The price of a home relative to typical local incomes is stretched, and renting is less expensive than buying a comparable home at current mortgage rates, which were trending slightly above a typical long-term average when these data were collected.
Because Basha Elementary serves only through sixth grade, there is no graduation rate to report. That is simply a function of the grade band. The school does not offer courses at the high school level, so metrics like AP access or career pathways do not apply here.
What a family gets with Basha is a school in a growing, tech-driven suburb, with academic results that are a notch above the middle of the field when compared across the county’s many districts. The school’s performance is not uniform across subjects and grades, and some important contextual data about student demographics and support needs are missing from the public record. A parent considering this school would benefit from a direct conversation with the school about those gaps and about the factors behind the grade-level swings in testing outcomes.
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