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Student Choice High School

Peoria · AZ · GAR LLC dba Student Choice High School (78997) · Public charter

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Programs & features
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Academic signals
  • 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 54% (Bottom 11% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)

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

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What families should know about Student Choice High School.

  • 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: Sunrise Mountain High School, West-MEC - Sunrise Mountain High School, Great Hearts Academies - Glendale Prep and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts

What % of students graduate on time?

Bottom 11% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate

50th 90th
4-year graduation rate
54%
Range: 50–59%
4-year cohort size
33
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.

Chronic absenteeism

Share of students absent 15+ days
56.7%
Well above the national average (~16%). At this level, chronic absence becomes a leading driver of enrollment loss as families rotate to other schools.
Students absent 15+ days
114
Federal definition: absent (excused or unexcused) for at least 15 of ~180 school days — about 10% of the school year.

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

Grade 12 went from 180 in 2021 to 144 in 2024 — over 3 years.
-20.0%

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

If the recent trend holds…

At its recent rate of -5.1%/year, projecting from 2024's 201 students:

2025
191
2027
172
2029
155

≈ 46 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 $8,634 per student in district revenue, the 46 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $397,164/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
Sunrise Mountain High School
PEORIA
Public 0.5 1,896 -6.4%
West-MEC - Sunrise Mountain High School
PEORIA
Public 0.5 2
Great Hearts Academies - Glendale Prep
PEORIA
Public · charter 0.8 324 +20.0%
West-MEC - Liberty High School
PEORIA
Public 1.7 2
Liberty High School
PEORIA
Public 1.7 2,510 +1.5%
Mountain Ridge High School
GLENDALE
Public 1.8 2,823 +5.1%
West-MEC - Mountain Ridge High School
GLENDALE
Public 1.9 3
EdOptions HS Learning Center
Peoria
Public · charter 2.3 439 -4.4%

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