Leading Edge Academy Gilbert Early College
GILBERT · AZ · LEAD Charter Schools (79967) · Public charter · K-12 combined
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Sierra School Gilbert → Life - Lauren'S Institute For Education → Autism Academy Of Education And Development → Ken 'Chief' Hill Learning Academy → Chandler Learning Center → Chandler Early College High School → Mesquite High School → EVIT - Mesquite High School →📋 At a glance
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 33% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 39% 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.
How Leading Edge Academy Gilbert Early College compares for families
What families should know about Leading Edge Academy Gilbert Early College.
- ▸ 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: Sierra School Gilbert, Life - Lauren'S Institute For Education, Autism Academy Of Education And Development and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 39% by test-taker volume
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
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
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.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the most reliable early indicator that a student will leave a school — either by transferring out, dropping out, or matriculating to a charter or private alternative. At this level, today's absentees become next year's enrollment loss and the year-after's revenue loss. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -4.4%/year, projecting from 2024's 194 students:
A small or specialty program — naive trend math doesn't capture the school's full picture. Read the trend as directional, not predictive.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sierra School Gilbert Gilbert |
Private | 1.0 | 29 | — |
| Life - Lauren'S Institute For Education Gilbert |
Private | 1.0 | 157 | — |
| Autism Academy Of Education And Development Tempe |
Private | 1.1 | 150 | — |
| Ken 'Chief' Hill Learning Academy CHANDLER |
Public | 1.4 | 133 | — |
| Chandler Learning Center CHANDLER |
Public | 1.7 | 58 | — |
| Chandler Early College High School CHANDLER |
Public | 1.8 | 80 | — |
| Mesquite High School GILBERT |
Public | 1.9 | 1,303 | -7.7% |
| EVIT - Mesquite High School GILBERT |
Public | 1.9 | 1 | — |