El Mirage Elementary School

As a sizable K-5 school in EL MIRAGE, Arizona, El Mirage Elementary School instructs 722 students from grades pre-K through 8, run under Dysart Unified District (4243). By comparison, Arizona's public schools average about 451 students each, so El Mirage Elementary School sits 60% bigger than that benchmark.

El Mirage Elementary School is one of 24 schools operated by Dysart Unified District (4243), a district that educates 23,078 students overall.

On the student-mix side, El Mirage Elementary School lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 69%. Beyond that, the school records 16% White, 9% Black, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, El Mirage Elementary School has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.0:1. That tracks the state average closely.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Maricopa County indicate median household income runs about $89,300, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. El Mirage Elementary School is one of 1352 public schools in Maricopa County (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students).

Riverview School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around El Mirage Elementary School.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at El Mirage Elementary School has shrank 7%, going from 774 students in 2018 to 722 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 84% to 69% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 19.7:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 in 2025.

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