C J Jorgensen School

PHOENIX, Arizona, is home to C J Jorgensen School, a small elementary school. It is open to students in pre-K through 8 and enrolls 242 students. It has 46% fewer students than the average for elementary schools in Arizona (about 451).

A total of 19 schools make up Roosevelt Elementary District (4279), with 7,057 students enrolled.

Of every 100 students at C J Jorgensen School, about 93 are Hispanic. Smaller groups are 4% Black. For comparison, the population of Maricopa County is roughly 31% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 14, compared with 70 nationally.

C J Jorgensen School lists 13 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 18.6 students per teacher. Across elementary schools in Arizona, the average ratio is 17.0:1.

In Maricopa County, home to about 4,559,748 people, the median household earns about $89,300 a year, roughly 37% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. C J Jorgensen School shares Maricopa County with 1,351 other public schools.

BASIS Phoenix South, about 0.4 miles away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

The school's locale code, City: Large, means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.

Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell 33%. Its ratio of students to teachers was 15.1:1 in 2020-21, and 18.6:1 in 2024-25.

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