Here are the Top 10 charter schools in Arizona, based on public voting for the 2023 edition of Ranking Arizona, the state’s biggest and most comprehensive business opinion poll. Ranking Arizona is based purely on opinion and ranks companies based on how voters answer this simple question: with whom would you recommend doing business?


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Here are the Top 10 charter schools in Arizona, as featured in the 2023 edition of Ranking Arizona:

1. Legacy Traditional Schools

2. Academies of Math and Science

3. Edkey Inc.-Sequoia Schools

Background: Edkey is a nonprofit organization that provides high quality educational services to a variety of institutions, empowering fulfillment of their individual missions. Edkey provides educational and operational support for 26 public charter schools and programs, consisting of approximately 11,000 students, operating exclusively in the State of Arizona. Its schools are considered the most unique group of public charter schools in the nation, with each individual school operating under its own mission and programming. School populations vary in size from 50 to 1,200 students and are classified in ranges consisting of large urban to small urban, large rural to small rural. Specialization schools include the Sequoia Deaf School (Mesa); the KELLY program for Emotionally Disabled Private Placement (ED-P) classified students (Phoenix); the TERRA program for students on the Autism spectrum (Mesa); and a distance learning platform though Sequoia Choice Arizona Distance Learning (Statewide).

4. EDUPRIZE Schools

5. BASIS Charter Schools

6. Villa Montessori

7. Benjamin Franklin Charter School

8. Great Hearts Academies

9. ASU Preparatory Academy

10. Heritage Academy Schools

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