James W. Rice Elementary School

Federal records list James W. Rice Elementary School as an elementary school in PHOENIX, Arizona. It reports enrollment of 686 students in pre-K through 8. That puts enrollment 52% larger than the 451-student average for elementary schools in Arizona.

Alhambra Elementary District (4280) is made up of 16 schools with 9,742 students in all.

Of every 100 students at James W. Rice Elementary School, about 91 are Hispanic. After that, the student body is 4% Asian and 3% Black. Census figures show Maricopa County is about 31% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 18, compared with 70 nationally.

The school has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 15.9 students per teacher. Elementary schools in Arizona average 17.0:1, 1.0 more students per teacher than here.

Maricopa County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $89,300 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 37% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. Public schools in Maricopa County number 1,352, with about 725,139 students.

A public school about 0.2 miles away, Alhambra Preschool Academy, is the closest to James W. Rice Elementary School. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools.

Locale data from NCES put James W. Rice Elementary School inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more (City: Large).

Enrollment figures show a decline of 174 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. By 2024-25, the school had 15.9 students per teacher, compared with 17.6 in 2020-21.

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