American Heritage Academy - Cottonwood

American Heritage Academy - Cottonwood is one of the low-enrollment unified-grade schools in COTTONWOOD, Arizona, operated by Edkey Inc. dba American Heritage Academy (6365), with 240 students on its rolls from grades K through 12. By comparison, Arizona's public schools average about 550 students each, so American Heritage Academy - Cottonwood sits 56% below that benchmark.

Edkey Inc. dba American Heritage Academy (6365) runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 347 students. American Heritage Academy - Cottonwood is one of those campuses.

On demographics, American Heritage Academy - Cottonwood records that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 40% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 81% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, American Heritage Academy - Cottonwood logs 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.4:1, putting American Heritage Academy - Cottonwood tighter than the state norm the norm.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Yavapai County) shows that median household income runs about $69,613, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Yavapai County's 107 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,538 students), American Heritage Academy - Cottonwood is one campus in the mix.

Liberty Leadership Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a small-town site. American Heritage Academy - Cottonwood is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 19%: 296 students in 2018 compared to 240 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 65% to 49% over that span.

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