School Demographics

• Established in 1996
• Arizonas First Official Core Knowledge School
• Suburban Elementary : Grades K-6
• Student Population - 650
• Average Class Size - 24 - 26
• Instructional Ratio 1 to 18
• Student Demographics: 68% White; 18% Hispanic; 5% Black; 8% Asian; 1% Native American; 23% Free & Reduced; 48.6% male; and 51.4% female.
• Existing Facility Completed in 1999
• 70% of our students live in Glendale
• 30% of our students live in the surrounding communities
• Per A.R.S. 15-184 Challenge Charter School may refuse to admit any pupil who has been expelled or who is in the process of being expelled from another educational institution.

   

  Service Areas

  
  

  School Choice does not permit boundaries for charter schools.  Our student population comes to us from the following general areas:  40% within a three-mile radius; 60% within a five-mile radius; and 40% outside that five-mile radius.  We have bus service that picks up about 150 or about 25% of our students daily.