Garfield School

As a mid-sized K-5 school in PHOENIX, Arizona, Garfield School caters to 403 students from grades pre-K through 8, run under Phoenix Elementary District (4256).

Phoenix Elementary District (4256) runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 3,963 students. Garfield School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Garfield School logs that 82% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 11% Black, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 31% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Maricopa County indicate the typical household earns roughly $89,300 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Maricopa County runs 1352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students), of which Garfield School is one.

Augustus H. Shaw Montessori is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Garfield School.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Garfield School's enrollment has contracted 36% since 2018, when it stood at 634 (now 403). Over the same period, the Black share rose from 5% to 11%. Class-load math has tightened: from 20.5:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Garfield School community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.