Silver Valley Elementary, Mesa AZ

Original Research by School Decision on Silver Valley Elementary

Silver Valley Elementary sits in the far southeastern section of Mesa, a sprawling suburban city that is the third-largest in Arizona. The school serves students from pre-kindergarten through sixth grade as a regular public school within the Queen Creek Unified District. Mesa itself is overwhelmingly auto-oriented, with wide arterial roads and strip commercial defining most of the built environment, though a downtown core around Main Street offers a walkable cluster of arts venues, shops, and breweries connected to Tempe and Phoenix by light rail. The city has grown rapidly since World War II, with sustained development pushing eastward toward newer suburban tracts, and the Queen Creek district has seen that growth firsthand.

The school is a large elementary campus for its grade band, with enrollment spread fairly evenly across kindergarten through sixth grade and a notable pre-kindergarten program. The student body is predominantly white, with a substantial Hispanic population and smaller shares of students who are Asian, Black, or of two or more races. Federal meal program data was not available, nor were counts of students with disabilities or English learners, so a reader cannot assess the level of economic or linguistic diversity from these figures alone.

On state assessments administered in the 2024-25 school year, proficiency rates in English language arts and math varied by grade level. In English language arts, proficiency was highest in fourth grade and lower in third and fifth grades, with a recovery in sixth grade. Math proficiency followed a similar pattern, with fourth graders performing strongest and sixth graders performing weakest overall. In science, which is tested in fifth grade, about half of students scored proficient. Across all tested subjects and grades, the school's overall proficiency index sits above the midpoint when compared with other districts in Maricopa County. The school has only a single year of testing data available in this source, so no trend can be drawn.

The Queen Creek district was named an A-rated district by the Arizona Department of Education, and the district has noted that its students on average score above state and national means on state tests. Families should be aware that the district is experiencing sustained rapid enrollment growth, which has driven the opening of a third high school and continues to affect school capacity, class sizes, and staffing needs. The school itself did not report data on discipline, chronic absenteeism, staffing ratios, or course access, so a parent may want to follow up with the school directly on those topics.

Housing in the area reflects the broader Mesa market, with home values and rents that have seen a slight year-over-year decline. For a large elementary school in a growing district within a major suburban city, this is a school where academic proficiency has a varied picture by grade but lands above the county midpoint overall.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 355%

School 55% · District 63% · ▼ 8 pts below district

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

Grade 467%

School 67% · District 44% · ▲ 23 pts above district

▲ 23 pts above state median · ▲ 20 pts above county median

Grade 556%

School 56% · District 44% · ▲ 12 pts above district

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

Grade 635%

School 35% · District 49% · ▼ 14 pts below district

▼ 1 pts below state median · ▼ 5 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 354%

School 54% · District 55% · ▼ 1 pts below district

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

Grade 468%

School 68% · District 65% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▲ 21 pts above state median · ▲ 18 pts above county median

Grade 558%

School 58% · District 53% · ▲ 5 pts above district

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

Grade 661%

School 61% · District 54% · ▲ 7 pts above district

▲ 18 pts above state median · ▲ 16 pts above county median

Science

Grade 550%

School 50% · District 49% · ▲ 1 pts above district

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

This schoolQueen Creek Unified District (4245), 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.