Parkview Elementary, Surprise AZ

Original Research by School Decision on Parkview Elementary

Parkview Elementary, part of the Dysart Unified School District in Surprise, Arizona, is no longer operating. The school's lifecycle status is listed as closed, meaning any family looking into this campus today will find that it does not accept new students. The information available about the school comes from a single academic year, the 2018-2019 school year, after which the school appears to have closed. This context shapes everything a parent or resident can learn about this entity.

For the year it was open, Parkview served a full range of elementary and middle school grades, from third through eighth. This is an unusual grade span; usually elementary schools end at fifth grade, and middle schools begin at sixth. Parkview combined them, which meant students could attend the same campus from upper elementary through the end of middle school, avoiding a transition between buildings at sixth grade.

The academic results from 2018-19 show a pattern that parents considering what this school once offered would want to understand. In math, proficiency rates declined notably as grade levels increased. Third graders met the state standard at a rate that was reasonably solid, but by seventh and eighth grade, the share of students scoring proficient or above was much lower. English language arts followed a similar but less dramatic downward slope; the elementary grades cleared the proficient bar at a lower rate than they did in math, and while the drop-off was gentler, the eighth grade performance was comparable to the elementary grades. Science was tested only in fourth and eighth grades, and in both cases roughly half of students met the standard, which represented a relative strength in the context of this school’s overall results.

No enrollment data, demographic breakdowns, or information on student subgroups such as English learners or students with disabilities were available for Parkview. A parent looking into the school's record would find no reported figures for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, race and ethnicity counts, or special populations. The absence of this information makes it impossible to describe the peer environment that existed at the school.

The school was a regular public school and was not a charter. It was part of Dysart Unified, a district that underwent a significant reconfiguration starting in the 2021-2022 school year, converting several elementary campuses into separate middle schools and changing feeder patterns. That restructuring occurred after Parkview had already closed, so it would not have affected this campus. The district also rebranded from Dysart Unified School District to Dysart Schools in 2022, again after the school’s closure.

Surprise itself is a large, fast-growing city northwest of Phoenix. It is primarily residential, built around master-planned communities and a recreation campus that includes a spring training stadium. The city’s growth has been explosive over the past few decades, transforming a small agricultural settlement into a suburban hub. Dysart Unified is the main school district serving the city. Parkview Elementary was one of its campuses, located within a residential neighborhood in Surprise.

Given that the school is closed, there are no current programs, after-school activities, or course offerings to examine. The only academic record is from several years ago, and the school’s performance at that time is not predictive of anything a family would experience today. For any parent or resident researching schools in the Dysart district, Parkview is a closed chapter, and attention would need to turn to the district’s currently operating elementary and middle schools.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 355%

School 55% · District 46% · ▲ 9 pts above district

▲ 11 pts above state median

Grade 448%

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

▲ 4 pts above state median

Grade 530%

School 30% · District 30%

▼ 12 pts below state median

Grade 634%

School 34% · District 33% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▼ 2 pts below state median

Grade 727%

School 27% · District 27%

▼ 5 pts below state median

Grade 830%

School 30% · District 37% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▼ 2 pts below state median

English language arts

Grade 340%

School 40% · District 41% · ▼ 1 pts below district

even with state median

Grade 439%

School 39% · District 40% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▼ 8 pts below state median

Grade 538%

School 38% · District 33% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▼ 3 pts below state median

Grade 631%

School 31% · District 46% · ▼ 15 pts below district

▼ 12 pts below state median

Grade 732%

School 32% · District 50% · ▼ 18 pts below district

▼ 11 pts below state median

Grade 837%

School 37% · District 51% · ▼ 14 pts below district

▼ 3 pts below state median

Science

Grade 453%

School 53% · district not reported

▼ 3 pts below state median

Grade 856%

School 56% · District 42% · ▲ 14 pts above district

▲ 23 pts above state median

This schoolDysart Unified District (4243), 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.