Belen Soto Elementary School

Belen Soto Elementary School, a roomy elementary-level community in Goodyear, Arizona, overseen by Litchfield Elementary District (4281), hosts 1,123 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 149% above the typical public school in Arizona, which averages around 451 students.

Within Litchfield Elementary District (4281), which oversees 16 schools and 10,755 students, Belen Soto Elementary School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Belen Soto Elementary School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 45%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 42% White, 5% Black, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Maricopa County as a whole is about 31% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Maricopa County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $89,300 per year, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Maricopa County runs 1352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students), of which Belen Soto Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Scott L Libby Elementary School, roughly 1.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

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