Chandler Traditional Academy - Liberty Campus, Chandler AZ

Original Research by School Decision on Chandler Traditional Academy - Liberty Campus

Chandler Traditional Academy – Liberty Campus serves students from prekindergarten through sixth grade in the Chandler Unified School District, a large suburban district in a fast-growing Phoenix-area city. The school is one of several traditional academies in the district, a label that typically signals a focus on direct instruction and structured academic expectations. It is a regular public school, not a magnet or charter.

The student body is diverse. White students make up the largest share, followed closely by Hispanic students, with smaller but notable populations of Asian, Black, and multiracial students. The school enrolls just over seven hundred children, putting it at a moderate size for an elementary campus. The district did not provide free-or-reduced-price lunch data, so the economic composition of the student body is not available from the public data examined.

Academically, Chandler Traditional Academy – Liberty Campus shows a split pattern in its state assessment results. In math, students through fifth grade posted proficiency rates that are solid and sit well above the midpoint compared to other schools in Maricopa County. The sixth grade results, however, drop lower than those earlier grades. In English language arts, the pattern is less consistent. Fourth grade had a strong showing, while third and sixth grades were somewhat lower, and fifth grade was the weakest of the four. Across all tested grades and subjects, the school’s overall proficiency index sits above the median for districts in Maricopa County, which is a positive signal. Still, the variation by grade means a parent may want to ask the school how instruction and curriculum differ between grade levels, particularly in fifth grade ELA and sixth grade math, where the dip is most pronounced.

Science is tested only in fifth grade and results there were in the middle range, with just under half of students reaching proficiency. Because the school serves only prekindergarten through sixth grade, there is no graduation rate to report. The data also did not include information on chronic absenteeism or school discipline, nor on staffing ratios or course access, so those areas remain unexamined here.

Chandler itself is a large suburb that has grown rapidly alongside the expansion of the semiconductor and technology corridor. Major employers include Intel, Wells Fargo, and a range of other tech and financial firms. The city is car-oriented, with wide arterial roads and a historic downtown core dating to the original townsite. The school is located in this city, but its specific neighborhood context is not detailed in the data. The Chandler Unified School District did not have publicly reported recent changes, such as boundary shifts, program additions, or bond measures, that were readily confirmable in the search conducted. That does not mean the district is static, only that this round of research did not surface those details.

For a family considering this school, the core picture is a solidly performing traditional public school in a growing suburban city with a strong local economy. The standout years are the elementary grades, particularly third through fifth in math and fourth grade in reading. The sixth grade drop in both subjects is a wrinkle worth investigating. The lack of data on the school’s Title I status, free-lunch share, and special education or English learner populations leaves some meaningful questions unanswered about who the school serves day to day and what support structures look like. A parent would want to visit, talk to the principal, and get a feel for how the school handles the transition into middle school readiness, since those sixth grade numbers suggest a potential shift in rigor or student engagement.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 365%

School 65% · District 44% · ▲ 21 pts above district

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

Grade 463%

School 63% · District 30% · ▲ 33 pts above district

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

Grade 567%

School 67% · District 53% · ▲ 14 pts above district

▲ 25 pts above state median · ▲ 21 pts above county median

Grade 641%

School 41% · District 26% · ▲ 15 pts above district

▲ 5 pts above state median · ▲ 1 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 356%

School 56% · District 35% · ▲ 21 pts above district

▲ 16 pts above state median · ▲ 12 pts above county median

Grade 469%

School 69% · District 32% · ▲ 37 pts above district

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

Grade 548%

School 48% · District 32% · ▲ 16 pts above district

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▲ 4 pts above county median

Grade 662%

School 62% · District 58% · ▲ 4 pts above district

▲ 19 pts above state median · ▲ 17 pts above county median

Science

Grade 549%

School 49% · District 48% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 12 pts above state median · ▲ 10 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.