Esperanza Elementary School

Esperanza Elementary School is one of the mid-sized elementary-level communitys in TUCSON, Arizona, one of the schools within Sunnyside Unified District (4407), with 437 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Esperanza Elementary School is one of 21 schools operated by Sunnyside Unified District (4407), a district that hosts 13,979 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Esperanza Elementary School lists that 90% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 6% White. By comparison, Pima County as a whole is about 36% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 17.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Pima County indicate median household earnings sit near $70,315, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Pima County runs 398 public schools (combined enrollment of about 140,692 students), of which Esperanza Elementary School is one.

Los Amigos Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Esperanza Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 28% since 2018, when it stood at 607 (now 437). White enrollment moved from 1% to 6% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 today.

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