Edison Elementary School

Edison Elementary School is one of the average-sized K-5 schools in MESA, Arizona, one of the schools within Mesa Unified District (4235), with 528 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6.

Mesa Unified District (4235) runs 81 schools in total, collectively educating 55,821 students. Edison Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Edison Elementary School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 72% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 17% White, 5% Native American, 4% multiracial, 2% Black. 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, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.2:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely.

Around the school, census data for Maricopa County shows median household income runs about $89,300, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Edison Elementary School is one of 1352 public schools in Maricopa County (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students).

Nearest neighbor: Kino Junior High School, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 19%: 654 students in 2018 compared to 528 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 60% to 72%.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.