Lowell Elementary School

Lowell Elementary School, a mid-sized primary school in MESA, Arizona, one of the schools within Mesa Unified District (4235), teaches 441 students, covering grades pre-K through 6.

Mesa Unified District (4235) comprises 81 schools with combined enrollment of 55,821 students; Lowell Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Lowell Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (84%). Beyond that, the school lists 8% White, 4% Black. By comparison, Maricopa County as a whole is about 31% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average.

In the area at large, Maricopa County reports that median household earnings sit near $89,300, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Lowell Elementary School is one of 1352 public schools in Maricopa County (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students).

The closest other public school is New Horizon School for the Performing Arts, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Five-year trend. Lowell Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 17% since 2018, when it stood at 533 (now 441).

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.