Desert Star Academy (92302)

Desert Star Academy operates as an active, independent charter school district located at 5599 Highway 95 in Fort Mohave, Arizona. Situated within a small suburban setting in the Lake Havasu City-Kingman metropolitan area, the district serves as its own local educational agency for federal programs while managing a single operational campus. The academy offers a continuous public educational pathway spanning from kindergarten through tenth grade, complemented by specialized ungraded academic programming. Designed to support families across the surrounding region, the school provides a structured, multi-grade environment tailored to meet foundational elementary, middle, and early secondary learning needs.

The academy serves a vibrant student body of 686 enrolled learners, including 351 female and 335 male students. The district's demographic composition is primarily made up of 448 White and 207 Hispanic students, alongside smaller student cohorts of multiracial (12), Black (10), Asian (5), and American Indian (4) backgrounds. Grade-level enrollment remains steady throughout the primary and middle school years—averaging between 50 and 73 students per grade level—before transitioning into early high school. Educational delivery and academic programming across the district are sustained by an instructional team of approximately 22.4 full-time equivalent teachers dedicated to serving the student population.