Echo Mountain Intermediate School

Echo Mountain Intermediate School operates as a tight-knit elementary school in PHOENIX, Arizona, overseen by Paradise Valley Unified District (4241). Current enrollment sits at 346 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Arizona's public schools average about 451 students each, so Echo Mountain Intermediate School sits 23% below that benchmark.

Within Paradise Valley Unified District (4241), which oversees 42 schools and 26,183 students, Echo Mountain Intermediate School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Echo Mountain Intermediate School shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 71%. The remainder comes out to 13% White, 9% Black, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Maricopa County as a whole is about 31% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Maricopa County indicate 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%. Across Maricopa County's 1352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students), Echo Mountain Intermediate School is one campus in the mix.

Echo Mountain Primary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies an urban site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 18%: 421 students in 2018 compared to 346 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 24% to 13% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.