Asante Preparatory Academy

Asante Preparatory Academy, a sprawling K-5 school in SURPRISE, Arizona, operated by Dysart Unified District (4243), works with 876 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 451 students per school, that is 94% larger than typical.

Dysart Unified District (4243) runs 24 schools in total, collectively educating 23,078 students. Asante Preparatory Academy is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Asante Preparatory Academy shows that the largest single group is White at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 40% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Maricopa County as a whole is about 59% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Asante Preparatory Academy logs 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.4:1. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Maricopa County put median household earnings sit near $89,300, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Asante Preparatory Academy is one of 1352 public schools in Maricopa County (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students).

Nearest neighbor: Desert Oasis Elementary School, around 2.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Asante Preparatory Academy community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.