Aguilar School

Located at 5800 S FOREST AVE, in TEMPE, Arizona, Aguilar School is a low-enrollment elementary campus that instructs 350 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by Tempe School District (4258). By comparison, Arizona's public schools average about 451 students each, so Aguilar School sits 22% leaner than that benchmark.

Tempe School District (4258) runs 22 schools in total, collectively educating 10,045 students. Aguilar School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Aguilar School shows that 72% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder looks like 10% White, 7% Native American, 6% Black, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Aguilar School has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.8:1. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Maricopa County indicate the typical household earns roughly $89,300 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Maricopa County's 1352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students), Aguilar School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Marcos De Niza High School, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Aguilar School has shrank 29%, going from 491 students in 2018 to 350 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 67% to 72% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 today.

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