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Dr. Camille Casteel High School

QUEEN CREEK · AZ · Chandler Unified District #80 (4242) · Public · K-12 combined

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📚AP rigor: 80th percentile nationally 📖27 AP courses 🎓95% 4-yr grad rate

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Programs & features
  • 📚 27 AP courses offered — Elite
  • 🔢 2 calculus classes · 2 physics · 3 chemistry
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: 80th percentile nationally
  • 📝 SAT/ACT participation: 90th percentile by test-taker volume
  • 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 95% (75th percentile nationally)

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How Dr. Camille Casteel High School compares for families

Stronger-than-average college-prep profile.

  • StatewideAP rigor in the top 20% nationally with 27 AP courses.
  • LocallyAZ sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: EVIT - Casteel High School, American Leadership Academy Queen Creek K-12, EVIT - American Leadership Academy Queen Creek and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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🎓 Academic rigor

AP + advanced-course offerings

Elite — exceptional AP + advanced course breadth

80th percentile nationally

50th 90th ↑ this school
Less rigorMore rigorMost rigor
AP courses offered
27
Math ✓ · Science ✓
Advanced math classes
7
2 calculus · 5 advanced
Lab science classes
5
2 physics · 3 chemistry
Other rigor signals
No dual-enrollment or gifted program reported

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).

SAT / ACT participation

CRDC federal data · 2020-21

90th percentile by test-taker volume

50th 90th
SAT/ACT test-takers
410
11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test
Test-taking intensity
20.9
takers per 100 students in grades 9-12
Compared against
18,426
US high schools reporting SAT/ACT participation

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.

🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts

What % of students graduate on time?

75th percentile nationally

50th 90th
4-year graduation rate
95%
Single-point estimate
4-year cohort size
412
Students in the 9th-grade entry class tracked over 4 years
Compared against
17,988
US high schools reporting 4-year ACGR

Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.

👩‍🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC

Teacher experience & reliability

% inexperienced teachers (1st-2nd yr)
19.2%
Typical mix. Watch the trend — high turnover can compound.
% chronic teacher absence (≥10 days/yr)
12.3%
Elevated. Teacher absence directly affects classroom continuity and student outcomes.

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.

Counselor capacity

Student : Counselor
414:1
Around the US median. Counselors are stretched but functional.
Counselor FTE
6.8
Full-time-equivalent school counselors on staff.
Teacher FTE
140
Full-time-equivalent classroom teachers.

Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.

Enrollment trend & projection

Grade 12 went from 505 in 2021 to 478 in 2024 — over 3 years.
-5.3%

Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).

If the recent trend holds…

At its recent rate of -4.6%/year, projecting from 2024's 2,816 students:

2025
2,687
2027
2,446
2029
2,227

≈ 589 fewer students by 2029 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.

An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.

Revenue at risk

At $11,338 per student in district revenue, the 589 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $6,678,082/year in funding at risk.

District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.

Nearby high schools — the local competition

The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.

SchoolTypeMilesHS enrollmentTrend
EVIT - Casteel High School
QUEEN CREEK
Public 0.0 1
American Leadership Academy Queen Creek K-12
QUEEN CREEK
Public · charter 1.9 897 -8.8%
EVIT - American Leadership Academy Queen Creek
QUEEN CREEK
Public 1.9
Canyon State Academy
Queen Creek
Private 3.5 253
Benjamin Franklin High School
Queen Creek
Public · charter 4.0 811 +15.5%
Heritage Academy Gateway
Queen Creek
Public · charter 4.1 582 +27.9%
EVIT - Heritage Academy Gateway
QUEEN CREEK
Public 4.1 2
Crismon High School
Queen Creek
Public 4.2 1,195 +169.8%

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