John F. Long

John F. Long is an elementary-level community of reasonably sized scale in PHOENIX, Arizona, run under Cartwright Elementary District (4282), teacheing 641 students in grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 42% above the state mean of about 451.

Within Cartwright Elementary District (4282), which oversees 22 schools and 13,436 students, John F. Long is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, John F. Long shows that nearly all students (89%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 5% Black, 2% White, 2% Native American. By comparison, Maricopa County as a whole is about 31% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, John F. Long has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting John F. Long higher than the state norm the norm.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Maricopa County indicate median household earnings sit near $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 John F. Long is one.

Cartwright Early Childhood Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around John F. Long.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at John F. Long has shrank 16%, going from 759 students in 2018 to 641 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 19.7:1 in 2018 to 22.8:1 today.

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