Cottonwood Elementary School

Set in TUCSON, Arizona, Cottonwood Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school, overseen by Vail Unified District (4413). It enrolls 570 students across grades K through 6. By comparison, Arizona's public schools average about 451 students each, so Cottonwood Elementary School sits 26% bigger than that benchmark.

Cottonwood Elementary School is one of 24 schools operated by Vail Unified District (4413), a district that teaches 15,011 students overall.

Demographically, Cottonwood Elementary School reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 40% White, 9% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Pima County as a whole is about 36% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Cottonwood Elementary School has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average.

In the surrounding community, Pima County reports that the typical household earns roughly $70,315 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Pima County's 398 public schools (combined enrollment of about 140,692 students), Cottonwood Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Desert Sky Middle School, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cottonwood Elementary School.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Cottonwood Elementary School's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 559 (now 570). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 49% to 40%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 today.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Cottonwood Elementary School typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.