The top reported proficiency rate is 29% in English language arts. The lowest is 21% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Redbird Elementary School
Redbird Elementary School sits in the heart of Mesa, a sprawling suburban city that spreads across a vast grid of wide arterial roads and residential tracts. Mesa is auto-oriented, with daily life depending on driving, though a modest downtown core around Main Street offers a more walkable pocket with the Mesa Arts Center and local shops. The school is part of the Mesa Unified District, one of the largest in Arizona, and serves students from prekindergarten through sixth grade as a regular public elementary school. The student body is majority Hispanic, with substantial shares of Black and American Indian students, as well as smaller White, Asian, and multiracial populations. Enrollment is modest for an elementary school within a large district, and the school draws from the surrounding neighborhood in this central Mesa location.
Academically, the most recent state assessment results place Redbird Elementary among the lowest-performing quarter of schools in Maricopa County when measured by overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades. In math, proficiency rates for the grades where results were reported fell well below the county median. The same pattern held in English language arts. Some grade-level results were suppressed in state data, a common practice when the number of students tested is very small, and a parent may want to ask the school directly for those results as well as the reasons behind the suppression. The school does not serve high school grades, so no graduation rate is applicable. Information on chronic absenteeism and discipline was not available in the data provided.
The school offers no specialized program track that appears in public records—no magnet or charter designation, no detailed course access listings. This absence of publicly reported enrichment or specialty programs means that a family considering Redbird Elementary would want to inquire directly with the school or district about what is available, particularly in areas like gifted education, arts, or after-school activities. The Mesa Unified District itself did not surface any recent district-wide changes or initiatives in the brief provided, so the context for Redbird is the broader Mesa system without a specific recent pivot.
Housing in the area around the school reflects the broader Mesa market, with home values and rents that, by national standards, have seen a modest decline in the recent period. Monthly mortgage costs on a typical home would be higher than average local rents in this part of the city, a dynamic that aligns with the area’s mix of older and newer neighborhoods. The school’s location on Extension Road places it in a central part of Mesa, near commercial corridors and within a short distance of the city’s grid of major arterials.
For a family weighing this school, the picture is mixed. Redbird Elementary serves a diverse student body in a large, established district within a major Sun Belt city. But the academic proficiency numbers are a clear soft spot, and the lack of publicly available data on student support programs, discipline incidents, and course offerings means a parent will need to supplement this picture with a call to the school office or a visit. The school’s relative position in the county is clear, and that may be a primary factor in a family’s decision alongside their own priorities for size, setting, and community fit.
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