Sun Valley’s public schools score below 55% of Arizona districts
The public schools Sun Valley’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 55% of Arizona’s districts on state tests and graduation.
How Sun Valley compares
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Arizona’s state tests against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown but don’t count. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids through every district that serves it, weighted by students tested. Tests count 60%, graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are compared with the rest of Arizona only. A+ is the top 5%, A the next 10%, A− the next 10%, the B range the next 30%, the C range the next 30%, D the rest.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income, so 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 will my kid go?
Pick a grade. These are the public schools that serve Sun Valley.
The district
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Well below the state in reading
Every school in Sun Valley
1 school. Grades are ours, from state tests and graduation. Stars are from neighbors.
Parents talk
What Sun Valley families are saying about school.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Colleges near Sun Valley
There’s no college in Sun Valley, but 1 is within 30 miles. The closest is Northland Pioneer College in Holbrook, 8.3 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of Sun Valley. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus · College Scorecard · IPEDS.
School data: U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts, F-33 school finance). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within Arizona. Stars are from neighbors.