West Wing School, Peoria AZ - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on West Wing School

West Wing School is a regular public school in Peoria, part of the Deer Valley Unified School District, serving students from preschool through eighth grade. It is a large school for its grade band, with an enrollment that includes a substantial majority of White students, followed by a smaller Hispanic population, and even smaller shares of Asian, Black, multiracial, and Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander students. The community it sits in is a major, sprawling Phoenix suburb that has grown rapidly and continues to develop, with master-planned communities and new industrial and commercial projects along a major freeway corridor. The school’s housing market is expensive, with home values well above the state benchmark; rents also reflect a high-cost area. A family considering West Wing should be prepared for a suburban, car-dependent setting.

Academically, West Wing School presents a picture that is strongest in the early grades and in English language arts, with some softening by the upper middle-school years, particularly in math. In the third grade, a strong share of students met the state’s proficiency bar in reading, though the math proficiency rate was lower that year. Across fourth through eighth grades, English language arts proficiency generally held at a solid level, with the highest point in fourth grade and a modest dip in fifth grade before recovering. Math proficiency, however, showed a steeper decline as students got older. Third grade math was the strongest showing, but by seventh grade the proficiency rate was lower, and it recovered only slightly in eighth grade. On the state science test, proficiency in fifth grade was below half of students, while eighth grade science showed a markedly higher level. Compared to other districts across Maricopa County, West Wing’s overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades sits above the midpoint.

The school does not serve high school grades, so there is no graduation rate to report. Data on special education and English learner populations was not available in the record. The school is a regular public school, not a charter or magnet, and information on its Title I status and program offerings was not provided. The district brief turned up no specific recent parent-relevant changes such as bond elections or curriculum updates that could be confirmed from public sources.

For a parent weighing this school, the academic pattern is worth a close look. The school’s overall standing relative to other districts in the county is a clear strength, and the early elementary reading results are encouraging. But the downward trend in math proficiency through the middle grades, though not unusual, is pronounced enough that a family with a child heading into that age range may want to ask the school how it supports math learning in the upper years. The community and housing context is clear: this is an affluent, growing suburban area where the cost of entry is high. The school is large and appears to serve a relatively stable, primarily White student body. Without program or extracurricular data, the specific academic and enrichment offerings beyond the core curriculum are unknown from this record.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 377%

School 77% · District 56% · ▲ 21 pts above district

▲ 33 pts above state median · ▲ 31 pts above county median

Grade 465%

School 65% · District 37% · ▲ 28 pts above district

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

Grade 552%

School 52% · District 55% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▲ 10 pts above state median · ▲ 6 pts above county median

Grade 654%

School 54% · District 26% · ▲ 28 pts above district

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

Grade 745%

School 45% · District 21% · ▲ 24 pts above district

▲ 13 pts above state median · ▲ 12 pts above county median

Grade 850%

School 50% · District 43% · ▲ 7 pts above district

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

English language arts

Grade 353%

School 53% · District 23% · ▲ 30 pts above district

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

Grade 469%

School 69% · District 38% · ▲ 31 pts above district

▲ 22 pts above state median · ▲ 19 pts above county median

Grade 547%

School 47% · District 52% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▲ 6 pts above state median · ▲ 3 pts above county median

Grade 664%

School 64% · District 58% · ▲ 6 pts above district

▲ 21 pts above state median · ▲ 19 pts above county median

Grade 763%

School 63% · District 38% · ▲ 25 pts above district

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

Grade 861%

School 61% · District 56% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▲ 21 pts above state median · ▲ 19 pts above county median

Science

Grade 546%

School 46% · District 51% · ▼ 5 pts below district

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

Grade 863%

School 63% · District 51% · ▲ 12 pts above district

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

This schoolDeer Valley Unified District (4246), 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.