Estrella Mountain Elementary School

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in GOODYEAR, Arizona, Estrella Mountain Elementary School hosts 525 students from grades pre-K through 8, run under Liberty Elementary District (4266).

Within Liberty Elementary District (4266), which oversees 7 schools and 4,547 students, Estrella Mountain Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Estrella Mountain Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White at 50%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 38% Hispanic, 6% Black, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 59%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Maricopa County put median household income runs about $89,300, 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 Estrella Mountain Elementary School is one.

Westar Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.0 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Estrella Mountain Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 3% since 2018, when it stood at 539 (now 525). Over the same period, the White share fell from 61% to 50%.

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