ASU Preparatory Academy - South Phoenix High School

ASU Preparatory Academy - South Phoenix High School is one of the one-room-style four-year high schools in PHOENIX, Arizona, operated by ASU Preparatory Academy (346763), with 247 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. That puts it 61% below the typical public school in Arizona, which averages around 631 students.

ASU Preparatory Academy - South Phoenix High School is a school of ASU Preparatory Academy (346763), the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On demographics, ASU Preparatory Academy - South Phoenix High School logs that 81% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 8% Black, 6% White, 2% Asian, 2% Native American. By comparison, Maricopa County as a whole is about 31% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.2:1 average.

In the broader community, Maricopa County reports that median household income runs about $89,300, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. ASU Preparatory Academy - South Phoenix High School is one of 1352 public schools in Maricopa County (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students).

Irene Lopez School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ASU Preparatory Academy - South Phoenix High School.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area. ASU Preparatory Academy - South Phoenix High School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ASU Preparatory Academy - South Phoenix High School has increased 72%, going from 144 students in 2018 to 247 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment shrank from 88% to 81% over that span.

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