Dr. Gary and Annette Auxier Elementary School, Queen Creek AZ

Original Research by School Decision on Dr. Gary and Annette Auxier Elementary School

Dr. Gary and Annette Auxier Elementary School is a regular public school in Queen Creek, Arizona, serving students from prekindergarten through sixth grade. It is part of the Chandler Unified School District, one of the several districts that serve this fast-growing southeast Phoenix suburb.

Queen Creek has deep agricultural roots—pecan groves, olive farms, and agritainment destinations still dot the landscape—but the town has transformed rapidly over the past decade. Residential subdivisions have spread across former farmland, and the population has grown substantially. The town remains car-dependent, with no scheduled transit, limited walkability, and a dispersed pattern of schools, parks, and civic facilities. Home values in the area sit well above state and national benchmarks, and rents are elevated as well, reflecting the affluent new-build housing market that has drawn many families.

The school itself enrolls a student body that is predominantly White, with a substantial Hispanic minority and small shares of other racial and ethnic groups. Enrollment is largest in the upper elementary grades. The data did not include the share of students qualifying for free or reduced-price meals or receiving special education or English learner services, so those dimensions of the school's population are not available for this account.

On state assessments from the most recent school year, Auxier Elementary produced results that fell above the midpoint among districts in Maricopa County for overall proficiency. However, performance varied notably by grade and subject. In English language arts, proficiency rates ranged from a low of about two-fifths of students in fifth grade to a high of about seven-tenths in sixth grade, with third and fourth grades falling between those extremes. In math, rates were more compressed, hovering just under half of students in most tested grades, with a slight dip in fourth grade. In fifth-grade science, a bit more than two-fifths of students met proficiency. These results come from a single year of available data, so no trend can be observed.

Because Auxier serves only elementary grades, there is no graduation rate, no high school course access data, and no chronic absenteeism measure. Those metrics do not apply here, so a family considering the school would need to look to the district's secondary schools for that picture.

What this school offers is a straightforward elementary experience in a growing suburban setting, with academic results that are above average for Maricopa County overall but show some unevenness across grade levels. The strongest showing came in sixth-grade reading, while math performance across all tested grades sat at or below half of students reaching proficiency. A parent may want to ask the school about how it supports students in the lower-performing areas, particularly in math for grades four through six.

The district itself did not have identifiable recent changes to report, so the broader administrative context is stable at this writing. For a family moving to Queen Creek’s newer subdivisions and looking for an elementary school within Chandler Unified, Auxier presents a solid, above-county-average academic profile with the caveat that some grade-level results merit closer inquiry.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 355%

School 55% · District 44% · ▲ 11 pts above district

▲ 11 pts above state median · ▲ 9 pts above county median

Grade 444%

School 44% · District 30% · ▲ 14 pts above district

even with state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

Grade 547%

School 47% · District 53% · ▼ 6 pts below district

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

Grade 649%

School 49% · District 26% · ▲ 23 pts above district

▲ 13 pts above state median · ▲ 9 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 351%

School 51% · District 35% · ▲ 16 pts above district

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

Grade 460%

School 60% · District 32% · ▲ 28 pts above district

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

Grade 540%

School 40% · District 32% · ▲ 8 pts above district

▼ 1 pts below state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

Grade 671%

School 71% · District 58% · ▲ 13 pts above district

▲ 28 pts above state median · ▲ 26 pts above county median

Science

Grade 542%

School 42% · District 48% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▲ 5 pts above state median · ▲ 3 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.