Dysart Middle School

Set in EL MIRAGE, Arizona, Dysart Middle School is a mid-tier elementary-level community, overseen by Dysart Unified District (4243). It works with 602 students across grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Arizona's public schools average about 451 students each, so Dysart Middle School sits 33% bigger than that benchmark.

Dysart Middle School is one of 24 schools operated by Dysart Unified District (4243), a district that caters to 23,078 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Dysart Middle School records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 73%. Other groups include 13% White, 8% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Maricopa County as a whole is about 31% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Dysart Middle School has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.3:1. That tracks the state average closely.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Maricopa County put 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 Dysart Middle School is one.

Dysart High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Dysart Middle School has edged down 34%, going from 916 students in 2018 to 602 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 57% to 73%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.

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