Gateway Polytechnic Academy

Among the schools in MESA, Arizona, is Gateway Polytechnic Academy, a large elementary school. It enrolls 1,003 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are pre-K through 8. That puts enrollment 122% bigger than the 451-student average for elementary schools in Arizona.

Queen Creek Unified District (4245) operates 15 schools. Combined enrollment is 15,065 students.

More than half of enrollment at Gateway Polytechnic Academy is White: 67%. The remaining shares are 22% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian, and 2% Black. Maricopa County as a whole is about 59% White, so the school's share is higher. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Gateway Polytechnic Academy scores 50%.

The school lists 52.5 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.1:1. The average for elementary schools in Arizona, 17.0:1, is lower.

Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Maricopa County show that the median household earns about $89,300 a year, about 37% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 8%. Across Maricopa County, 1,352 public schools serve about 725,139 students.

American Leadership Academy Mesa K-6 is the nearest public school to Gateway Polytechnic Academy, about 0.8 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

Federal records code the school's setting as City: Large.

Federal enrollment counts increased from 937 (2020-21) to 1,003 (2024-25). From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 21.3:1 to 19.1:1.

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