Audrey & Robert Ryan Elementary, Chandler AZ

Original Research by School Decision on Audrey & Robert Ryan Elementary

Audrey & Robert Ryan Elementary is a regular public school in the Chandler Unified School District, serving students from prekindergarten through sixth grade. Located in the southern part of Chandler, the school sits within a large, fast-growing Phoenix suburb that has become a significant tech and semiconductor employment hub, anchored by major employers such as Intel, Wells Fargo, and Northrop Grumman. The surrounding area is car-oriented, with master-planned subdivisions, freeway corridors, and strip retail defining the landscape. For a family considering this school, the housing market reflects the area's desirability: home values are well above the state median, and rents are similarly elevated. A household earning the national median income would find both renting and buying here to be a stretch, with estimated monthly housing costs consuming a substantial share of income.

The school's enrollment is moderate for an elementary serving these grades. The student body is primarily white, with the next largest groups being Hispanic students and students identifying as two or more races, followed by Asian students and a smaller number of Black or African American students, and a very small number of American Indian or Alaska Native students. Data on the share of students qualifying for free or reduced-price meals, students with disabilities, and English learners was not available in the data provided. A parent may want to ask the school directly about its support programs and the composition of its student body in those categories.

Academically, the school's performance on state assessments presents a mixed picture, and overall proficiency sits above the midpoint compared to other schools within Maricopa County districts in the most recent testing data. In English language arts, proficiency rates climb steadily from third grade through sixth grade, with more than half of students meeting the bar at each of those levels. The math results show a similar upward trajectory but start lower; just under half of third and fourth graders were proficient, while the share rose to a little more than half in fifth grade and reached a similar level in sixth grade. In fifth-grade science, nearly two-thirds of students were proficient. Looking across two years of testing data, proficiency in both math and English language arts has held fairly steady, with no clear trend up or down. Since the school does not serve grades that are tested for a four-year graduation rate, there is no such measure to report. The school's status regarding Title I funding was not provided, so it is unclear whether it receives federal resources to support low-income students.

The school's program offerings were not detailed in the data. No information was available on the range of courses, extracurriculars, or any specialized programs such as gifted education or music. The district itself did not have clearly identifiable recent changes or strategic priorities in the web research, beyond its role as one of the largest employers in Chandler. For a parent, the key decision points here are the school's location in a high-cost, growing suburban tech corridor, its solid but not exceptional academic proficiency that improves as students move through the grades, and the absence of key contextual details about student support and enrichment programs that would require a direct conversation with the school to fill in.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 346%

School 46% · District 44% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▲ 2 pts above state median · even with county median

Grade 448%

School 48% · District 30% · ▲ 18 pts above district

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

Grade 556%

School 56% · District 53% · ▲ 3 pts above district

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

Grade 659%

School 59% · District 26% · ▲ 33 pts above district

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

English language arts

Grade 347%

School 47% · District 35% · ▲ 12 pts above district

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▲ 3 pts above county median

Grade 462%

School 62% · District 32% · ▲ 30 pts above district

▲ 15 pts above state median · ▲ 12 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 668%

School 68% · District 58% · ▲ 10 pts above district

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

Science

Grade 563%

School 63% · District 48% · ▲ 15 pts above district

▲ 26 pts above state median · ▲ 24 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.