Summary:
The city of Bullhead City, Arizona is home to 10 schools, including 6 elementary schools, 2 middle schools, and 2 high schools. The data reveals significant performance differences between the charter schools and the traditional public schools in the area, with the charter schools consistently outperforming their counterparts on academic measures.
The standout schools in Bullhead City are Mohave Accelerated Learning Center, a public charter high school with high proficiency rates and an impressive 98% four-year graduation rate, Young Scholars Academy, a public charter K-8 school with some of the highest proficiency rates in the district, and the Mohave Accelerated Elementary School and Mohave Accelerated Elementary School East, which also have strong academic performance.
In contrast, the Bullhead City School District as a whole is underperforming, with most of its schools ranked in the bottom half of Arizona schools and receiving low 1- or 2-star ratings from SchoolDigger. The data also reveals a correlation between economic disadvantage, as measured by free/reduced lunch rates, and lower academic performance, with the highest-poverty schools generally having the lowest test scores.
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