Imagine Desert West Middle

Imagine Desert West Middle is one of the moderately sized intermediate schools in PHOENIX, Arizona, part of Imagine Desert West Middle Inc. (89563), with 437 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Imagine Desert West Middle sits inside Imagine Desert West Middle Inc. (89563), the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Imagine Desert West Middle reports that 87% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder comes out to 7% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Maricopa County as a whole is about 31% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.8:1. The state averages around 17.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Maricopa County) shows that 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%. Across Maricopa County's 1352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students), Imagine Desert West Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Imagine Desert West Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Imagine Desert West Middle.

The school occupies a city-core site. Imagine Desert West Middle operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 10%: 396 students in 2018 compared to 437 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share fell from 95% to 87%.

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