Helen Keeling Elementary School

Set in TUCSON, Arizona, Helen Keeling Elementary School is a cozy elementary campus, run under Amphitheater Unified District (4406). It hosts 230 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 49% leaner than the typical public school in Arizona, which averages around 451 students.

Amphitheater Unified District (4406) runs 22 schools in total, collectively educating 11,277 students. Helen Keeling Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Helen Keeling Elementary School reports that 71% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest looks like 13% White, 7% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Pima County as a whole is about 36% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Helen Keeling Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm.

Zooming out to the county, Pima County reports that median household income runs about $70,315, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Pima County runs 398 public schools (combined enrollment of about 140,692 students), of which Helen Keeling Elementary School is one.

Desert Rose Academy Charter School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Helen Keeling Elementary School.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Five-year trend. Helen Keeling Elementary School's enrollment has declined 38% since 2018, when it stood at 373 (now 230). Over the same period, the White share rose from 9% to 13%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 in 2025.

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