The Excel Center - Papago
A public charter alternative school for grades 9 to 12 in Phoenix, Arizona 85008
4837 E MCDOWELL RD, Phoenix, Arizona 85008. (602) 535-4401.
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The short answer
Record last released by NCES on Jul 1, 2026.
Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.
How do students fare?
100.0% of students chronically absent in 2022-23
Arizona: 41.2%. Its district: 100%.
Missing 10% or more of school days.
U.S. Department of Education, chronic absenteeism, 2022-23. Released Nov 7, 2024. Updated yearly.
NCES, school membership, 2022-23. Released Jan 11, 2024. Updated yearly.
U.S. Department of Education, ED Data Express: four-year adjusted-cohort graduation rates and cohort counts (FS150, FS151), school level, 2020-21 to 2022-23. Released Dec 11, 2024. Updated yearly.
- In 2022-23, 5% or less of the 135 students in its four-year cohort graduated with a regular diploma within four years: ED publishes a range, not a figure, to protect students’ privacy.
U.S. Department of Education, chronic absenteeism, 2022-23. Released Nov 7, 2024. Updated yearly.
NCES, school membership, 2022-23. Released Jan 11, 2024. Updated yearly.
U.S. Department of Education, ED Data Express: four-year adjusted-cohort graduation rates and cohort counts (FS150, FS151), school level, 2020-21 to 2022-23. Released Dec 11, 2024. Updated yearly.
| School year | Graduated with a regular diploma within four years |
|---|---|
| 2022-23 | 5% or less |
What kind of school is it, and who does it serve?
- A public charter alternative school for grades 9 to 12.
- Open in NCES’s 2025-26 directory, which is still preliminary.
- NCES gives no 2024-25 count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch for this school.
- NCES’s 2021-22 estimates of poverty around schools don’t include this one.
NCES, school directory, 2025-26 (preliminary). Released Jul 1, 2026. Updated yearly.
NCES, Common Core of Data, 2024-25. Released Dec 29, 2025. Updated yearly.
NCES, EDGE school neighborhood poverty estimates, 2021-22. Released Oct 15, 2024. Updated yearly.
What did the school report?
What the school reported to the Office for Civil Rights for 2023-24. These are the school’s own counts, not findings.
- The 2023-24 Civil Rights Data Collection has no record for this school.
Who teaches and supports students?
| Measure | This school |
|---|---|
| Teachers, 2024-25 | Not given |
| Students per teacher, 2024-25 | Not given |
How does it compare nearby?
- Among the 12 nearest public alternative high schools in Arizona, within 6.0 miles, the middle value for chronic absence in 2022-23 was 100.0%; this one had 100.0%.
U.S. Department of Education, chronic absenteeism, 2022-23. Released Nov 7, 2024. Updated yearly.
| School | Miles away | Chronically absent, 2022-23 |
|---|---|---|
| The Excel Center - Papago This school | 100.0% | |
| Ombudsman - Charter East | 1.5 | 100.0% |
| Robert L. Duffy High School | 3.1 | 100.0% |
| Student Choice High School | 3.2 | 9.7% |
| Ombudsman - Charter Northeast | 3.3 | 100.0% |
| Kaizen Education Foundation dba Summit High School | 5.0 | 100.0% |
| Pinnacle High School - Tempe | 5.0 | 100.0% |
| Genesis Academy | 5.1 | 100.0% |
| International Commerce High School - Tempe | 5.1 | 7.1% |
| Learning Institute The | 5.7 | 74.5% |
| Skyline Prep High School | 6.0 | 55.5% |
| City View High School | 6.0 | 61.5% |
Who runs it?
- Run by Arizona Goodwill Education Services (1001949), its local education agency in NCES’s directory.
- Its charter authorizer, as NCES lists it: CHARTER BOARD (CSB).
- District spending, fiscal year 2024: the Census Bureau’s survey of school system finances gives no spending per student for the agency that runs it.
NCES, school directory, 2025-26 (preliminary). Released Jul 1, 2026. Updated yearly.
U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances, fiscal year 2024: individual unit tables. Released May 7, 2026. Updated yearly.
| Organisation | Role | Share | Since |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona Goodwill Education Services (1001949) | Runs it, as its local education agency | ||
| CHARTER BOARD (CSB) | Authorized its charter |
Has anything been proven against it?
- Federal school data don’t record findings against a school: the counts here are what the school reported, and the Office for Civil Rights’ own investigations aren’t included.
What the record doesn’t say
- Federal school data arrive one to three years after the school year they describe, so each figure here carries its own year.
- To protect students’ privacy, ED adds or takes away one at random from chronic absence counts of four or fewer, so a small count may be one off.
- ED publishes each school’s test results in reading and language arts and in mathematics, but they aren’t loaded here yet.
- ED publishes most schools’ results as ranges, wider for smaller schools, to protect students’ privacy: each is shown as ED publishes it, never as a single figure.
Sources
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National Center for Education Statistics, School directory, 2025-26 (preliminary).
Released Jul 1, 2026 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0.
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National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, 2024-25.
Released Dec 29, 2025 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0.
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National Center for Education Statistics, School locations, 2024-25.
Released Dec 19, 2025 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0.
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National Center for Education Statistics, EDGE school neighborhood poverty estimates, 2021-22 (American Community Survey, 2018-2022).
Released Oct 15, 2024 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0.
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U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances, fiscal year 2024: individual unit tables.
Released May 7, 2026 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. Public domain (a U.S. government work), cited to the Census Bureau as it asks.
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National Center for Education Statistics, School membership, 2022-23 (v.1a).
Released Jan 11, 2024 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0.
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U.S. Department of Education, ED Data Express, Chronic absenteeism, 2022-23.
Released Nov 7, 2024 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0 (as data.ed.gov lists EDFacts data).
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U.S. Department of Education, ED Data Express, ED Data Express: four-year adjusted-cohort graduation rates and cohort counts (FS150, FS151), school level, 2020-21 to 2022-23.
Released Dec 11, 2024 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0 (as data.ed.gov lists EDFacts data).
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This copy of the record was made on Oct 19, 2026.
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