What is AZ LEARNS?
Arizona School Achievement Profiles AZ LEARNS is the Arizona Department of Education’s school accountability system. The Arizona Department of Education (ADE) defines purposeful school accountability as fair and accurate measurements of school performance that are designed to publicly identify and improve schools. The ADE has developed AZ LEARNS to meet the accountability requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). Under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, all schools are required to make adequate yearly progress toward ensuring that all students are able to demonstrate proficiency on the required state academic and performance standards. The ADE provides a school classification for all public schools (district and charter). Schools can be classified as Excelling, Highly Performing, Performing Plus, Performing or Under Performing.The AIMS results are used to determine the classifications given to schools. A school is classified as failing only after three con
