Joseph City Elementary School

As a cozy elementary campus in JOSEPH CITY, Arizona, Joseph City Elementary School educates 190 students from grades pre-K through 6, one of the schools within Joseph City Unified District (4388). That puts it 58% below the typical public school in Arizona, which averages around 451 students.

Joseph City Unified District (4388) runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 415 students. Joseph City Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Joseph City Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White, at 57% of enrollment; the rest reads as 21% Hispanic, 14% Native American, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 45% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Joseph City Elementary School logs 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.4:1. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Navajo County indicate median household earnings sit near $54,606, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 20%. In all, Navajo County runs 98 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,662 students), of which Joseph City Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Joseph City Junior High School, around 0.6 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Joseph City Elementary School operates from a low-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Joseph City Elementary School has shrank 23%, going from 248 students in 2018 to 190 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 15% to 21% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 21.0:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

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