Flora Thew Elementary School

Flora Thew Elementary School is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary campuss in TEMPE, Arizona, run under Tempe School District (4258), with 501 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Tempe School District (4258) runs 22 schools in total, collectively educating 10,045 students. Flora Thew Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Flora Thew Elementary School logs that 69% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school shows 13% Black, 6% White, 4% Pacific Islander, 4% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 31% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average.

In the broader community, census data for Maricopa County shows 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), Flora Thew Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

SLAM Arizona Inc. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Flora Thew Elementary School has decreased 8%, going from 543 students in 2018 to 501 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

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