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Brunson-Lee Elementary School
Test scores
AASA 2023-24 . % PassingWhat this means: On the AASA, Arizona's statewide test, about 2 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arizona schools, those numbers are about 42 and 35. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2017, while math scores are down about 1 points.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Brunson-Lee Elementary School
Brunson-Lee Elementary School is a K-5 school of reasonably sized scale in PHOENIX, Arizona, one of the schools within Balsz Elementary District (4268), teacheing 412 students in grades pre-K through 6.
Balsz Elementary District (4268) runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 1,936 students. Brunson-Lee Elementary School is one of those campuses.
On demographics, Brunson-Lee Elementary School logs that 69% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 17% Black, 8% Native American, 3% multiracial, 3% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.
Looking at school resources, On paper, Brunson-Lee Elementary School has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Maricopa County) shows that median household earnings sit near $89,300, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Maricopa County's 1352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students), Brunson-Lee Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is The Excel Center - Papago, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Brunson-Lee Elementary School.
The campus sits in a city-core setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 7%: 384 students in 2018 compared to 412 in 2025.
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