AAEC - SMCC Campus

AAEC - SMCC Campus is one of the tight-knit four-year high schools in PHOENIX, Arizona, operated by Arizona Agribusiness & Equine Center Inc. (85816), with 426 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 631 students per school, that is 32% smaller than typical.

AAEC - SMCC Campus sits inside Arizona Agribusiness & Equine Center Inc. (85816), the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, AAEC - SMCC Campus logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (89%). Other groups include 5% Black, 4% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 20.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Maricopa County shows the typical household earns roughly $89,300 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Maricopa County's 1352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students), AAEC - SMCC Campus is one campus in the mix.

T G Barr School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area. AAEC - SMCC Campus operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at AAEC - SMCC Campus has ticked down 4%, going from 444 students in 2018 to 426 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 84% to 89% over that span.

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