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Small & Specialized Private Schools in the Phoenix region: 19 schools, each documented from its own website or a public program list. 4 of the 19 publish tuition; 2 publish days per week; 0 record a funding program with a named source.
Use the filters to narrow by the things that decide a school choice — funding program, grade band, area, and whether tuition is published at all. Where a school has not published a field, its listing says so and gives you the question and the admissions link instead of a guess.
Hub content last reviewed 2026-10-28.
Computed from the 19 listings on this page — our dataset, counted, not estimated.
Ranked by how much documentation the business itself publishes — the evidence we could check, not a judgement of the food or the kitchen.
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
The Gifted Collective is a Phoenix academy for gifted and twice-exceptional learners, serving grades 2-8 in classes of about 12-16 students. It also runs a hybrid high-school partn…
15255 N 40th St #147, Phoenix, AZ 85032 · 623.986.8408
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
Copper Sky Academy is a Scottsdale school for neurodiverse learners in grades K-8. Tuition and ESA status were not published in the sources we checked, so those fields are left emp…
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
Paradigm Learning is a Gilbert school for grades K-8 publishing a 5:1 student-to-teacher ratio. Tuition and ESA status were not published in the sources we checked, so those fields…
1166 S Gilbert Rd, Suite 113, Gilbert, AZ · (480) 590-0826
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
The Modern Schoolhouse is a small school in northwest Phoenix serving grades K-4 with a published 10:1 student-to-teacher ratio. Tuition and ESA status were not published in the so…
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
Alpha School's Scottsdale campus is part of the Alpha network, whose model compresses core academics into about two hours of AI-personalised learning per day, with the rest of the …
20624 N 76th St, Scottsdale, AZ 85255 · (480) 253-9802
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
Desert Sun Ranch Academy is a small private learning center on a 5-acre ranch in Queen Creek, dedicated to children with special needs, with nature-based learning in the mornings a…
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
Trinity Arch Preparatory School for Boys is a Christian microschool in Phoenix for boys, described on its own site as serving grades 4-8 in its Lower School with mastery-based, per…
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
Polaris Academy is a Mesa school listed in the Autism Society of Greater Phoenix's specialized schools list, which publishes its phone and website, polarisacademy.org. Grades serve…
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
PS Academy is a K-12 school in Gilbert listed in the Autism Society of Greater Phoenix's specialized schools list, which publishes its phone and website, psacademyarizona.com. Tuit…
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
Red Oak Autism Academy is a Pre-K through 12 school in Mesa listed in the Autism Society of Greater Phoenix's specialized schools list, which publishes its phone and website, redoa…
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
Rise Learning Academy is a K-12 school in Queen Creek listed in the Autism Society of Greater Phoenix's specialized schools list, which publishes its phone and website, RiseLearnin…
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
St. Dominic Savio Academy is a K-12 and early-intervention school in Chandler listed in the Autism Society of Greater Phoenix's specialized schools list, which publishes its phone …
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
The United School for Autism is a grades 1-12+ school in Scottsdale listed in the Autism Society of Greater Phoenix's specialized schools list, which publishes its phone and websit…
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
STAR Autism Academy is a Phoenix school for children between the ages of 5 and 14 with severe language, communication, learning and behavioural needs, listed in the Autism Society …
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
Victory Autism Academy is a K-12 school listed in the Autism Society of Greater Phoenix's specialized schools list with elementary and middle/high locations in Goodyear, plus eleme…
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
Thriving Minds Academy is a K-5 school in Apache Junction, in the east Phoenix metro, listed in the Autism Society of Greater Phoenix's specialized schools list, which publishes it…
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
Science Prep Academy is a Phoenix school founded in 2017 for neurodivergent students in grades 6-12, operating in two classrooms at the Kroc Center with a small teaching team and a…
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
The Autism Academy for Education and Development (AAED) lists a Tempe campus on its own campuses page, with the phone number recorded here. AAED operates autism school campuses acr…
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
The Autism Academy for Education and Development (AAED) lists a Glendale campus on its own campuses page, with the phone number recorded here. AAED operates autism school campuses …
| Name | Evidence tier | School model | Grades served | Funding reported accepted | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Gifted Collective | Listed (public record) | Private school - small / specialized | Elementary (grades 1–5), Middle school (grades 6–8) | Arizona ESA (Empowerment Scholarship Account) | 2026-10-28 |
| Copper Sky Academy | Listed (public record) | Private school - small / specialized | Kindergarten, Elementary (grades 1–5), Middle school (grades 6–8) | Arizona ESA (Empowerment Scholarship Account) | 2026-10-28 |
| Paradigm Learning | Listed (public record) | Private school - small / specialized | Kindergarten, Elementary (grades 1–5), Middle school (grades 6–8) | Arizona ESA (Empowerment Scholarship Account) | 2026-10-28 |
| The Modern Schoolhouse | Listed (public record) | Private school - small / specialized | Kindergarten, Elementary (grades 1–5) | Arizona ESA (Empowerment Scholarship Account) | 2026-10-28 |
| Alpha School - Scottsdale | Listed (public record) | Private school - small / specialized | Kindergarten, Elementary (grades 1–5), Middle school (grades 6–8) | — | 2026-10-28 |
| Desert Sun Ranch Academy | Listed (public record) | Microschool, Private school - small / specialized | Kindergarten, Elementary (grades 1–5) | — | 2026-10-28 |
| Trinity Arch Preparatory School for Boys | Listed (public record) | Microschool, Private school - small / specialized | Elementary (grades 1–5), Middle school (grades 6–8) | — | 2026-10-28 |
| Polaris Academy | Listed (public record) | Private school - small / specialized | — | — | 2026-10-28 |
| PS Academy | Listed (public record) | Private school - small / specialized | Kindergarten, Elementary (grades 1–5), Middle school (grades 6–8), High school (grades 9–12) | — | 2026-10-28 |
| Red Oak Autism Academy | Listed (public record) | Private school - small / specialized | PreK, Kindergarten, Elementary (grades 1–5), Middle school (grades 6–8), High school (grades 9–12) | — | 2026-10-28 |
| Rise Learning Academy | Listed (public record) | Private school - small / specialized | Kindergarten, Elementary (grades 1–5), Middle school (grades 6–8), High school (grades 9–12) | — | 2026-10-28 |
| St. Dominic Savio Academy | Listed (public record) | Private school - small / specialized | Kindergarten, Elementary (grades 1–5), Middle school (grades 6–8), High school (grades 9–12) | — | 2026-10-28 |
| The United School for Autism | Listed (public record) | Private school - small / specialized | Elementary (grades 1–5), Middle school (grades 6–8), High school (grades 9–12) | — | 2026-10-28 |
| STAR Autism Academy | Listed (public record) | Private school - small / specialized | — | — | 2026-10-28 |
| Victory Autism Academy | Listed (public record) | Private school - small / specialized | Kindergarten, Elementary (grades 1–5), Middle school (grades 6–8), High school (grades 9–12) | — | 2026-10-28 |
| Thriving Minds Academy | Listed (public record) | Private school - small / specialized | Kindergarten, Elementary (grades 1–5) | — | 2026-10-28 |
| Science Prep Academy | Listed (public record) | Private school - small / specialized | Middle school (grades 6–8), High school (grades 9–12) | Arizona ESA (Empowerment Scholarship Account) | 2026-10-28 |
| The Autism Academy - Tempe | Listed (public record) | Private school - small / specialized | — | — | 2026-10-28 |
| The Autism Academy - Glendale | Listed (public record) | Private school - small / specialized | — | — | 2026-10-28 |
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4 of 19 (21%). That share is typical for this market and is the reason every listing here shows its tuition state explicitly — published figure, or an honest gap with the admissions link — rather than hiding unpublished schools.
Arizona ESA (Empowerment Scholarship Account) (5), counted from each school's own published pages or the program's public list — never from a school's advertising alone.
From the school's own description of its model, cross-checked against any network it belongs to. Categories describe structure — size, schedule, philosophy — never quality. This site does not rank schools; it publishes the decision data schools themselves put out, and marks the rest as gaps.
How a school gets on this page: from a public-record source (NCES, a state list, a program provider list, or a network locator) or the school’s own published pages. Trust states describe how the facts were confirmed; they are not a quality judgement, and schools are never ordered by quality.
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