Maricopa Wells Middle School is a public middle school in Maricopa, Arizona, serving 934 students in grades 6-8. The school is part of the Maricopa Unified School District, which is ranked 224 out of 288 districts in the state and has a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger.
Maricopa Wells Middle School faces several challenges, including consistently low academic performance across all grade levels in English Language Arts and Mathematics, with proficiency rates below the state and district averages. For example, in 2023-2024, the school's 6th-grade ELA proficiency was 37%, compared to the district's 32% and the state's 43%. The school also experiences relatively high dropout rates, ranging from 1.0% to 3.8% over the past few years, which is higher than the state average. Additionally, the school has a high percentage of students from low-socioeconomic backgrounds, with 56.96% of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch in the 2022-2023 school year.
When compared to nearby schools, such as Desert Wind Middle School (also in the Maricopa Unified School District) and Villago Middle School (in the Casa Grande Elementary District), Maricopa Wells Middle School generally performs worse academically, with lower proficiency rates in ELA and Mathematics. The school's performance also varies significantly across different student subgroups, with Asian and Native American students tending to perform better than their African American, Hispanic, and White peers. The school's ranking for Special Education students is particularly low, indicating a need for improvement in supporting this population.
In the 2023-24 school year, 903 students attended Maricopa Wells Middle School.
Students who attend Maricopa Wells Middle School usually go on to attend Maricopa High School
Maricopa Wells Middle School ranks in the bottom 16.4% of Arizona middle schools.
Students at Maricopa Wells Middle School are 47% Hispanic, 21% White, 17% African American, 6% Two or more races, 5% American Indian, 3% Asian, 1% Pacific Islander.
Maricopa Unified School District