Overview

Camelback High School is a public high school in the Phoenix Union High School District, a high-school-only district covering roughly 220 square miles of metro Phoenix with about 27,000 students across 23 schools district-wide.

Academics

No independently verified Arizona state assessment proficiency or A-F letter-grade data was located for this profile; check the Arizona Department of Education's site directly for current school-level results.

Neighborhood

The school sits in central Phoenix, in Maricopa County -- Arizona's largest county and one of the fastest-growing metro areas in the country.

Crime & safety

Phoenix crime data shows unusually wide variance across sources, more than most cities checked so far in this directory. Estimates range from "12% below the national average" (one FBI-UCR-calibrated source) to "47% above the national average" (a different provider) to a violent-crime rate described as "110% above the national average" by a third. One source citing FBI data notes the gap between citywide and neighborhood-level figures directly: aggregate city statistics include commercial corridors and transit hubs that skew the average, while roughly 75-94% of purely residential neighborhoods score in the A/B safety range individually.

This is the widest source disagreement found in this directory so far -- from "12% below average" to "110% above average" for the same city. Large sprawling metros like Phoenix seem particularly prone to this, likely because citywide averages blend very different neighborhoods and because different providers weight commercial/transit-heavy areas differently. Treat any single city-level number for a place this size with real caution, and prefer neighborhood-specific data over city-wide averages when you can get it.

Our calculated rating

We don't publish a single proprietary score, and given how much the safety figures disagree here, we're not showing a calculated rating for this profile at all -- 1 of 3 possible components, built on data too inconsistent to treat as reliable. See our ratings methodology.

Sources

  1. NCES Common Core of Data, School Search -- Camelback High School, 2024-25 school year.
  2. Wikipedia, "Phoenix Union High School District," district-wide enrollment and staffing figures.
  3. Nextdoor Neighbors resource page, Phoenix crime and safety, 2026.
  4. NeighborhoodScout, Phoenix crime data, citing FBI crime data, 2026.
  5. AreaVibes, Phoenix crime rate summary, 2026.
  6. DoorProfit.com, Phoenix crime statistics and neighborhood-level crime map, citing FBI UCR data, 2026.
  7. CrimeSafe.app, Phoenix safety score, 2026.