Desert Thunder Primary School

Basic InfoStudents and TeachersTest PerformanceTeacher's ExperienceSchool District

16750 West Garfield Dr

Goodyear AZ, 85338, Maricopa County

Phone: 623-772-4700

Ranking:

(762 out of 1,363, bottom 44%)*

Type: Regular Primary School

Status: Currently Operational

Grade: Kindergarten to Grade 8

School District: Avondale Elementary District

Title I Eligible School: Yes School-Wide Title I: NA

Magnet: NA

Charter: NA

Shared-Time School: NA

Students and Teachers

	2013-2014		2012-2013		2011-2012		2010-2011		2009-2010		2008-2009		2007-2008
	Amount	%	Amount	%	Amount	%	Amount	%	Amount	%	Amount	%	Amount	%
Total Teachers:	28		28		34		31		35		36		50
Total Students:	619		631		704		742		667		707		1,110
Kindergarten:	56	9.0%	66	10.5%	63	8.9%	81	10.9%	66	9.9%	75	10.6%	102	9.2%
Grade 1:	62	10.0%	60	9.5%	81	11.5%	73	9.8%	67	10.0%	73	10.3%	124	11.2%
Grade 2:	60	9.7%	71	11.3%	66	9.4%	82	11.1%	80	12.0%	61	8.6%	122	11.0%
Grade 3:	86	13.9%	53	8.4%	80	11.4%	77	10.4%	59	8.8%	82	11.6%	119	10.7%
Grade 4:	55	8.9%	65	10.3%	72	10.2%	70	9.4%	78	11.7%	76	10.7%	133	12.0%
Grade 5:	70	11.3%	71	11.3%	71	10.1%	84	11.3%	83	12.4%	87	12.3%	128	11.5%
Grade 6:	68	11.0%	76	12.0%	93	13.2%	93	12.5%	87	13.0%	86	12.2%	121	10.9%
Grade 7:	67	10.8%	83	13.2%	86	12.2%	93	12.5%	78	11.7%	71	10.0%	147	13.2%
Grade 8:	94	15.2%	86	13.6%	92	13.1%	89	12.0%	69	10.3%	95	13.4%	114	10.3%
Ungraded:	1	0.2%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
Student By Gender:
Male:	324	52.3%	333	52.8%	377	53.6%	378	50.9%	354	53.1%	368	52.1%	544	49.0%
Female:	295	47.7%	298	47.2%	327	46.4%	364	49.1%	305	45.7%	331	46.8%	562	50.6%
Student By Races:
American Indian/Alaska Native:	9	1.5%	11	1.7%	9	1.3%	10	1.3%	6	0.9%	10	1.4%	9	0.8%
Asian:	19	3.1%	25	4.0%	27	3.8%	28	3.8%	17	2.5%	16	2.3%	39	3.5%
Hispanic:	291	47.0%	304	48.2%	318	45.2%	339	45.7%	302	45.3%	302	42.7%	477	43.0%
Black:	112	18.1%	101	16.0%	106	15.1%	97	13.1%	96	14.4%	100	14.1%	132	11.9%
White:	181	29.2%	181	28.7%	238	33.8%	267	36.0%	246	36.9%	279	39.5%	453	40.8%
Hawaiian Native/Pacific Islander:	1	0.2%	3	0.5%	2	0.3%	0	0.0%	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Two or More Races:	6	1.0%	6	1.0%	4	0.6%	1	0.1%	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Lunch Program:
Free Lunch Program Eligible:	264	42.6%	244	38.7%	129	18.3%	225	30.3%	263	39.4%	233	33.0%	349	31.4%
Reduced-Price Lunch Program Eligible:	61	9.9%	57	9.0%	62	8.8%	67	9.0%	84	12.6%	97	13.7%	100	9.0%
Student-Teacher Ratio:	22.51		22.95		21.01		23.94		19.06		19.60		22.20

Test Performance

Year	Test	Grade	Measurement	Score	School District	State Average
AIMS
2009	Math	3rd Grade	Mean Scaled Score	439	438	N/A
2010	Math	3rd Grade	Mean Scaled Score	357	352	N/A
2011	Math	3rd Grade	Mean Scaled Score	361	359.14	N/A
2012	Math	3rd Grade	Mean Scaled Score	365	354	N/A
2013	Math	3rd Grade	Mean Scaled Score	368	347	N/A
2009	Reading	3rd Grade	Mean Scaled Score	456	452	N/A
2010	Reading	3rd Grade	Mean Scaled Score	464	452	N/A
2011	Reading	3rd Grade	Mean Scaled Score	463	452.67	N/A
2012	Reading	3rd Grade	Mean Scaled Score	461	450	N/A
2013	Reading	3rd Grade	Mean Scaled Score	460	442	N/A
2009	Math	4th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	467	469	N/A
2010	Math	4th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	376	373	N/A
2011	Math	4th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	379	369.36	N/A
2012	Math	4th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	377	369	N/A
2013	Math	4th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	379	365	N/A
2009	Reading	4th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	480	466	N/A
2010	Reading	4th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	479	475	N/A
2011	Reading	4th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	476	470.53	N/A
2012	Reading	4th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	479	463	N/A
2013	Reading	4th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	485	468	N/A
2009	Science	4th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	504	497	N/A
2010	Science	4th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	514	509	N/A
2011	Science	4th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	515	502.58	N/A
2012	Science	4th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	513	493	N/A
2013	Science	4th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	516	492	N/A
2009	Math	5th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	488	494	N/A
2010	Math	5th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	366	377	N/A
2011	Math	5th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	386	385.23	N/A
2012	Math	5th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	380	378	N/A
2013	Math	5th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	366	376	N/A
2009	Reading	5th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	486	487	N/A
2010	Reading	5th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	489	486	N/A
2011	Reading	5th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	500	492.76	N/A
2012	Reading	5th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	483	483	N/A
2013	Reading	5th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	485	487	N/A
2009	Writing	5th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	483	513	N/A
2010	Writing	5th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	520	504	N/A
2011	Writing	5th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	496	488.62	N/A
2012	Writing	5th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	494	485	N/A
2013	Writing	5th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	492	486	N/A
2009	Math	6th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	520	510	N/A
2010	Math	6th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	390	398	N/A
2011	Math	6th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	403	403.27	N/A
2012	Math	6th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	396	398	N/A
2013	Math	6th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	365	396	N/A
2009	Reading	6th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	501	489	N/A
2010	Reading	6th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	501	500	N/A
2011	Reading	6th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	517	503.37	N/A
2012	Reading	6th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	497	498	N/A
2013	Reading	6th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	469	495	N/A
2009	Writing	6th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	556	526	N/A
2010	Writing	6th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	525	521	N/A
2011	Writing	6th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	502	485.69	N/A
2012	Writing	6th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	505	490	N/A
2013	Writing	6th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	505	493	N/A
2009	Math	7th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	552	552	N/A
2010	Math	7th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	417	414	N/A
2011	Math	7th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	418	420.47	N/A
2012	Math	7th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	406	424	N/A
2013	Math	7th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	397	417	N/A
2009	Reading	7th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	506	509	N/A
2010	Reading	7th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	526	517	N/A
2011	Reading	7th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	532	526.66	N/A
2012	Reading	7th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	519	524	N/A
2013	Reading	7th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	514	525	N/A
2009	Writing	7th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	509	529	N/A
2010	Writing	7th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	555	522	N/A
2011	Writing	7th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	491	490.64	N/A
2012	Writing	7th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	488	490	N/A
2013	Writing	7th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	494	490	N/A
2009	Math	8th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	555	550	N/A
2010	Math	8th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	422	425	N/A
2011	Math	8th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	441	430.48	N/A
2012	Math	8th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	412	426	N/A
2013	Math	8th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	425	431	N/A
2009	Reading	8th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	532	517	N/A
2010	Reading	8th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	520	522	N/A
2011	Reading	8th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	529	517.76	N/A
2012	Reading	8th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	500	514	N/A
2013	Reading	8th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	512	514	N/A
2009	Science	8th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	507	499	N/A
2010	Science	8th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	497	501	N/A
2011	Science	8th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	521	507.3	N/A
2012	Science	8th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	498	506	N/A
2013	Science	8th Grade	Mean Scaled Score	505	504	N/A

Some data by SchoolDigger.com.

Teacher's Experience and Compensation

	2007	2006
Teachers with Bachelor Degree:	58.3%	55.8%
Teachers with Master or PhD Degree:	41.7%	44.2%

Mean Number of Years of Teaching:	8.0 years	8.0 years
Teachers with 5 Years of Experience of Less:	54.2%	53.5%
Teachers with 6 Years of Experience or More:	45.8%	46.5%

Mean Base Salary:	$44,630.0	$41,806.0
Mean Base Salary of Teachers with 5 Years of Experience of Less:	$35,430.0	$33,802.0
Mean Base Salary of Teachers with 6 Years of Experience or More:	$55,502.0	$51,012.0

* Desert Thunder Primary School was rated 3 out of 5 by USA.com. The ranking was calculated based on publically available historical Math and English performance data.