Desert Shadows Elementary School

Set in SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, Desert Shadows Elementary School is a reasonably sized primary school, overseen by Paradise Valley Unified District (4241). It caters to 554 students across grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 23% above the state mean of about 451.

Paradise Valley Unified District (4241) comprises 42 schools with combined enrollment of 26,183 students; Desert Shadows Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Desert Shadows Elementary School logs that 68% of the student body identifies as White; the rest is composed of 19% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 59%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Maricopa County shows the typical household earns roughly $89,300 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Maricopa County runs 1352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students), of which Desert Shadows Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Desert Shadows Middle School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Desert Shadows Elementary School operates from a city-core location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Desert Shadows Elementary School has expanded 24%, going from 448 students in 2018 to 554 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 77% to 68% over that span.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for Desert Shadows Elementary School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.