Circle Cross K8 STEM Academy

Circle Cross K8 STEM Academy is a primary school of large scale in San Tan Valley, Arizona, run under Florence Unified School District (4437), instructing 728 students in grades K through 8. By comparison, Arizona's public schools average about 451 students each, so Circle Cross K8 STEM Academy sits 61% bigger than that benchmark.

Florence Unified School District (4437) comprises 14 schools with combined enrollment of 8,731 students; Circle Cross K8 STEM Academy is among them.

Looking at the student body, Circle Cross K8 STEM Academy records that the most-represented group is White (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 42% Hispanic, 5% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Native American. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Pinal County indicate median household income runs about $80,266, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Pinal County's 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,837 students), Circle Cross K8 STEM Academy is one campus in the mix.

Legacy Traditional-San Tan is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Circle Cross K8 STEM Academy.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 4%: 759 students in 2018 compared to 728 in 2025.

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