Desert Sunrise High School

Desert Sunrise High School is a four-year high school of high-enrollment scale in MARICOPA, Arizona, one of the schools within Maricopa Unified School District (4441), works with 1,261 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 100% above the state mean of about 631.

Maricopa Unified School District (4441) runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 9,568 students. Desert Sunrise High School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Desert Sunrise High School reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 26% White, 19% Black, 7% multiracial, 3% Native American. By comparison, Pinal County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Desert Sunrise High School has 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.2:1 average.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Pinal County indicate the typical household earns roughly $80,266 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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), Desert Sunrise High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Desert Wind Middle School, roughly 1.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

On this page, members of the Desert Sunrise High School community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.