Desert Hills, AZ schools
Desert Hills’s public schools score above Arizona’s averages: 41% of students are proficient in reading against 38.5% statewide, and 91% of high schoolers graduate on time against 77.3%. Kids attend one of 6 schools through grade 6, then Thunderbolt Middle School and Lake Havasu High School.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Desert Hills’s School Grade: B+
The public schools Desert Hills’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 72% of Arizona’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Arizona’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Arizona only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Arizona with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Where Desert Hills kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Above the state in reading
91% graduate on time
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #20 of 103 AZ towns →
The district serving Desert Hills
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Colleges near Desert Hills
There’s no college within 30 miles of Desert Hills. The closest is Mohave Community College in New Kingman-Butler, AZ, 53.8 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of Desert Hills. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus.
We don’t have any schools located in Desert Hills yet.