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Great Hearts Academies - Archway Arete
Test scores
AASA 2024-25 . % PassingWhat this means: On the AASA, Arizona's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arizona schools, those numbers are about 45 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 9 points since 2017, while math scores are down about 15 points.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Great Hearts Academies - Archway Arete
Great Hearts Academies - Archway Arete is one of the moderately sized elementary campuss in Gilbert, Arizona, run under Archway Classical Academy Arete (92312), with 522 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.
Great Hearts Academies - Archway Arete is a school of Archway Classical Academy Arete (92312), the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.
On the student-mix side, Great Hearts Academies - Archway Arete shows that White students make up the majority at 56%. Other groups include 26% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 7% Asian, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely.
In the area at large, census data for Maricopa County shows median household income runs about $89,300, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Maricopa County's 1352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students), Great Hearts Academies - Archway Arete is one campus in the mix.
Great Hearts Academies - Arete Prep is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area. Great Hearts Academies - Archway Arete is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
Five-year trend. Great Hearts Academies - Archway Arete's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 534 (now 522). The White share of enrollment declined from 63% to 56% over that span.
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