Vista Peak
PHOENIX · AZ · Deer Valley Unified District (4246) · Public · K-12 combined
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Northeast Campus → West-MEC - Barry Goldwater High School → Barry Goldwater High School → Jefferson Preparatory High School → Arizona Conservatory for Arts and Academics → Ombudsman - Charter West → West-MEC Gateway Community College → North Canyon High School →📋 At a glance
- ✅ Gifted & talented program
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 25% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 4% by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Vista Peak compares for families
What families should know about Vista Peak.
- ▸ 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: Northeast Campus, West-MEC - Barry Goldwater High School, Barry Goldwater High School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 4% 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.
👩🏫 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 -0.5%/year, projecting from 2024's 63 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northeast Campus PHOENIX |
Public | 1.6 | 50 | — |
| West-MEC - Barry Goldwater High School PHOENIX |
Public | 1.7 | 9 | — |
| Barry Goldwater High School PHOENIX |
Public | 1.7 | 1,602 | -1.4% |
| Jefferson Preparatory High School GLENDALE |
Public · charter | 2.3 | 49 | — |
| Arizona Conservatory for Arts and Academics PHOENIX |
Public · charter | 2.7 | 148 | -12.4% |
| Ombudsman - Charter West Phoenix |
Public · charter | 2.7 | 176 | +95.6% |
| West-MEC Gateway Community College Phoenix |
Public | 2.7 | 4 | — |
| North Canyon High School PHOENIX |
Public | 2.7 | 1,560 | -18.7% |