Cesar E Chavez Community School

Cesar E Chavez Community School is an elementary campus of average-sized scale in PHOENIX, Arizona, part of Roosevelt Elementary District (4279), teacheing 408 students in grades pre-K through 8.

Across the 19 schools in Roosevelt Elementary District (4279) (7,057 students total), Cesar E Chavez Community School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Cesar E Chavez Community School logs that nearly all students (92%) are Hispanic. The remainder breaks down as 4% Black, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 31% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Cesar E Chavez Community School records 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.7:1. That figure is higher 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Cesar E Chavez Community School is one of 1352 public schools in Maricopa County (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students).

The closest other public school is Reyes Maria Ruiz Leadership Academy, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cesar E Chavez Community School.

Cesar E Chavez Community School operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 12%: 462 students in 2018 compared to 408 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment fell from 97% to 92% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 21.0:1 in 2018 to 17.7:1 in 2025.

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