Indian Bend Elementary School

Indian Bend Elementary School is one of the mid-sized elementary-level communitys in PHOENIX, Arizona, run under Paradise Valley Unified District (4241), with 539 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6.

Indian Bend Elementary School is one of 42 schools operated by Paradise Valley Unified District (4241), a district that works with 26,183 students overall.

On demographics, Indian Bend Elementary School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 63% of enrollment. Other groups include 24% White, 5% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 31% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Indian Bend Elementary School shows 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Maricopa County indicate median household income runs about $89,300, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Maricopa County's 1352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students), Indian Bend Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Great Hearts Academies - North Phoenix Prep is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Indian Bend Elementary School.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 3%: 525 students in 2018 compared to 539 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 29% to 24% over that span.

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