Cave Creek Academy of Excellence
Virtual schools are not graded, because they enroll students from across the state rather than a local area. How grades work
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 1 | 5% |
| Grade 11 | 4 | 21% |
| Grade 12 | 14 | 74% |
Test scores
AASA 2023-24 . % PassingWhat this means: On the AASA, Arizona's statewide test, about 2 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 2 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arizona schools, those numbers are about 42 and 35. Reading and writing scores are down about 61 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 43 points.
AASA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | 2.0% | 2.0% |
| 2022-23 | 2.0% | 2.0% |
| 2020-21 | 63.0% | 45.0% |
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 19 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2023-24 | 18 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 21 | 2.2 | 9.6:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 393 | 9 | 43.7:1 | N/A |
About Cave Creek Academy of Excellence
Cave Creek Academy of Excellence is a very small school serving multiple grade levels that serves part of SCOTTSDALE, Arizona. It reported 19 students in kindergarten through 12 in 2024-25. Combined schools in Arizona have about 550 students on average; enrollment here is 97% lower.
Cave Creek Academy of Excellence is one school in Cave Creek Unified District (4244), a system of 8 schools with 3,821 students.
White students are 68% of those enrolled at Cave Creek Academy of Excellence. Next come 32% Hispanic. That compares with about 59% White among all Maricopa County residents.
For the population of Maricopa County, median household income comes to about $89,300, roughly 37% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. Maricopa County counts 1,352 public schools with about 725,139 students.
Cave Creek Academy of Excellence's closest public school neighbor is EVIT Cactus Shadows High School, about 0.1 miles away. The five-mile area around Cave Creek Academy of Excellence holds at least 8 other public schools.
For locale, NCES codes Cave Creek Academy of Excellence as City: Mid-size. Cave Creek Academy of Excellence carries a virtual school designation in NCES data.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, reported enrollment went from 393 to 19. Such a large difference may reflect a change in the grades served.
This page is set up for the Cave Creek Academy of Excellence community to discuss open houses, carpools, and field trips. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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