The top reported proficiency rate is 32% in Math. The lowest is 27% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on The Creighton Academy
The Creighton Academy serves students from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade as a regular public school within the Creighton Elementary District in Phoenix. Located in a large, sprawling urban center, the school sits in a car-oriented part of the city where wide roadways on a grid pattern are the norm. Phoenix has a history of rapid growth and an economy that has shifted from agriculture to services, technology, manufacturing (especially electronics and aerospace), and tourism. The school itself is not a charter and operates as a standard neighborhood school for the area.
The student body is predominantly Hispanic, making up a large majority of the roughly 450 students. Smaller groups of white, Black, Asian, Native American, and multiracial students make up the rest. The data does not report how many students qualify for free or reduced-price meals or receive special education or English learner services, so it is not possible to describe the school’s poverty level or share of students with those needs from the available information.
On state assessments, the picture is mixed but generally low. Most grade-level results are suppressed, which Arizona does when a small number of students are tested in a given group; that is a common pattern for a school of this size across many grade levels. The results that are reported show that third-grade math proficiency was about a third of students, while seventh- and eighth-grade English language arts proficiency was roughly a quarter to just over a quarter. An overall proficiency index that combines all tested subjects and grades places the school below the midpoint of all districts in Maricopa County. That index covers elementary and middle school testing, so it gives a broad sense that most students are not reaching the state’s proficient bar. There is no multi-year trend data that would show whether performance is improving or declining, only a single year’s snapshot. Because the school ends at eighth grade, there is no graduation rate or chronic absenteeism data to consider.
The school offers pre-kindergarten, which is a plus for families seeking early childhood education within the same building as older siblings. No information is available about specific programs such as gifted education, arts, athletics, or career pathways that might be present at the school. The district brief did not surface any recent changes like bond measures, curriculum shifts, or leadership transitions, so there is nothing to report on that front.
Housing in the school’s ZIP code has seen a modest decline in both home values and rents over the past year, though the area remains part of a fast-growing metropolitan region. The typical home would require a substantial income to afford, and the gap between buying and renting is wide, which may influence family decisions about whether to live in this specific pocket of Phoenix.
A parent evaluating The Creighton Academy will find a school with a high share of Hispanic students in a large urban district, test results that are below the county median, and a significant portion of its assessment data suppressed due to small testing cohorts. The absence of free-meal, special education, and English learner data means a family cannot fully assess the level of support the school provides to different student groups. The school serves the full span from pre-K through middle school, which can simplify transitions. However, the academic performance as measured by state tests is a soft spot that a parent may want to look into further with the school, particularly to understand how instruction and support are structured in the later elementary and middle grades.
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