Getz School

Located at 625 W CORNELL DR, in TEMPE, Arizona, Getz School is an one-room-style elementary-level community that teaches 163 students (grades pre-K through 8), part of Tempe School District (4258). By comparison, Arizona's public schools average about 451 students each, so Getz School sits 64% below that benchmark.

Within Tempe School District (4258), which oversees 22 schools and 10,045 students, Getz School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Getz School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 44%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 20% White, 14% Black, 9% Asian, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Maricopa County as a whole is about 31% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Getz School has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Getz School tighter than the state norm the norm.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Maricopa County indicate median household income runs about $89,300, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Getz School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Wood School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Getz School has shrank 20%, going from 205 students in 2018 to 163 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked down from 51% to 44%.

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