Mesa Center for Success

Mesa Center for Success, an one-room-style K-5 school in MESA, Arizona, run under Mesa Unified District (4235), instructs 52 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Arizona's public schools average about 451 students each, so Mesa Center for Success sits 88% leaner than that benchmark.

Mesa Unified District (4235) runs 81 schools in total, collectively educating 55,821 students. Mesa Center for Success is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Mesa Center for Success lists that the largest single group is White at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 33% Hispanic, 12% Black, 8% Native American, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 59% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 6.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average.

Around the school, census data for Maricopa County shows the typical household earns roughly $89,300 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Maricopa County's 1352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students), Mesa Center for Success is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Crossroads at East Valley Academy, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mesa Center for Success.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mesa Center for Success has shrank 81%, going from 267 students in 2018 to 52 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 49% to 42%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 8.3:1 in 2018 to 6.5:1 in 2025.

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