Peoria Accelerated High School

Peoria Accelerated High School serves students in PEORIA, Arizona, as a small high school. Its grade span covers grades 9 through 12, with 496 students on the rolls. Across high schools in Arizona, the average enrollment is about 631.

Peoria Accelerated High School is not part of a larger district; federal data list it as its own local education agency.

More than half of enrollment at Peoria Accelerated High School is Hispanic: 69%. The remaining shares are 14% White, 10% Black, 3% multiracial, and 2% Asian. Maricopa County as a whole is about 31% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 49%.

Peoria Accelerated High School reports a ratio of 20.7 students per teacher, from 24 full-time-equivalent teachers. The ratio is within a point of the 20.2:1 average for high schools in Arizona.

Census data for Maricopa County show the median household earns about $89,300 a year, roughly 37% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Peoria Accelerated High School, Maricopa County has 1,352 public schools.

Peoria Accelerated High School's nearest public school is Alta Loma School (about 0.5 miles). There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles.

The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large). This is a charter school, which is a tuition-free public school operating under a charter.

In 2020-21, Peoria Accelerated High School enrolled 407 students. By 2024-25, that number had grown to 496.

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