State-wide school letter grades were announced in the last week of October for the 2024-2025 academic year with both of Sedona’s schools earning B’s.

West Sedona Elementary School and Sedona Red Rock Jr./Sr. High School received B’s individually and the Sedona-Oak Creek Unified School District received a B overall.

This was a large jump for West Sedona School, compared to its previous score of a D.

During that year, the school saw 68% of its students minimally proficient in English Language Arts, 15% partially proficient, 15% proficient and 2% highly proficient. Math and Science scores were not reported.

“When all students in a subgroup score at the same performance level, reporting ‘100%’ or ‘0%’ would violate each student’s anonymity. To protect students’ anonymity, we do not report the breakdown for each performance level,” the report cards website reads.

SRRHS performed at 49% minimally proficient in English language arts, 23% partially proficient, 23% proficient and 5% highly proficient.

Enough data were missing for the math and science reports to not be able to have overall scores for those categories.
Sedona Charter School received a B this year as well as last year.

In English Language Arts, the charter school was at 30% minimally, 31% partially and 33% proficient in the last report. It was 6% highly proficient. In science, it was at 9% minimally, 44% partially, 44% proficient and 3% highly proficient. Math was 54% minimally, 22% partially, 17% proficient and 7% highly proficient.

Private schools, like Sedona Montessori School and Verde Valley School, and separate school districts, like courses offered through the Valley Academy for Career and Technology Education and Yavapai College, were not graded.

“A” to “F” school letter grades are the state accountability model used annually to measure school performance. The system measures year-to-year student academic growth and proficiency in:

• English language arts, math and science
• The proficiency and academic growth of English language learners
• Indicators that elementary students are ready for success in high school and high school students are ready for success in a career or higher education and
• high school graduation rates

According to the Arizona State Board of Education website:

A is excellent: Distinguished performance on the statewide assessment, significant student growth, high four-year graduation rates, students on track to proficiency; overall performance is significantly higher than state average.

• B is highly performing: High performance on statewide assessment and/or significant student growth and/or higher four-year graduation rates and/or moving students to proficiency at a higher rate than the state average.
  
• C is performing: Adequate performance but needs improvement on some indicators, such as proficiency, growth or graduation rate.
  
• D is minimally performing: Inadequate performance in proficiency, growth and/or four-year graduation rate relative to the state average.
  
• F is failing: Systematic failures in proficiency Schools have until Monday, Nov. 17, at 5 p.m. to appeal their letter grades. Schools who appeal will be marked as “under review” until the Arizona State Board of Education takes action on appeals at its January meeting.
  Depending on the outcome of the appeals, school letter grades may change.

In high schools across the state before appeals, 117 received an A grade, 94 received a B, 16 received a C and one received D and F.

K-8 schools earned 469 A letter grades, 536 Bs, 282 Cs, 41 Ds and 13 Fs.

Hybrid schools are schools serving grades across both the K-8 model and the 9-12 model.

Hybrid schools earned 60 As across the state, 43 Bs, 29 Cs, 4 Ds and 1 F.Local Education Agencies are school districts and charter schools that operate public schools overall; These also get letter grades.

More detailed descriptions of each school will appear on azreportcards.azed.gov after the appeals process is set, but the preliminary letter grades are all posted online.