Cactus Shadows High School

Cactus Shadows High School is a large secondary school in Scottsdale, Arizona, part of Cave Creek Unified District (4244). The school instructs 1,362 students in grades 8 through 12. By comparison, Arizona's public schools average about 631 students each, so Cactus Shadows High School sits 116% bigger than that benchmark.

Cave Creek Unified District (4244) comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 3,821 students; Cactus Shadows High School is among them.

On demographics, Cactus Shadows High School logs that 80% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 12% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 59% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.9:1. That tracks the state average closely.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Maricopa County) records that the typical household earns roughly $89,300 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Maricopa County's 1352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students), Cactus Shadows High School is one campus in the mix.

EVIT Cactus Shadows High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Looking at the recent track record. Cactus Shadows High School's enrollment has declined 25% since 2018, when it stood at 1,819 (now 1,362). White enrollment moved from 88% to 80% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 26.8:1 in 2018 to 20.9:1 in 2025.

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