Maricopa High School

Maricopa High School sits in MARICOPA, Arizona, and is classified as a high school. The school counts 1,840 students across grades 6 through 12. The typical figure for high schools in Arizona is about 631 students.

The district, Maricopa Unified School District (4441), has 9,568 students enrolled across 11 schools.

Maricopa High School has no majority group; Hispanic students are the largest, at 46%. Other students are 24% White, 16% Black, 7% multiracial, and 5% Native American. By comparison, Pinal County residents are about 30% Hispanic. The school's diversity index is 70%, meaning two students picked at random have a 70% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.

Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 21.6:1 at Maricopa High School, with 85.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. On average, high schools in Arizona have 20.2:1, compared with 21.6:1 here.

Maricopa High School is graded C+ by allk12, scoring above 40% of Arizona public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.

County data help place the school in context: in Pinal County, the median household income is $80,266, roughly 23% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Pinal County is home to 155 public schools and about 63,837 public school students.

The nearest other public school, Maricopa Wells Middle School, is about 0.4 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools.

Maricopa High School is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000, a location NCES labels Suburb: Small.

Enrollment has fallen by 764 students since 2020-21, to 1,840. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 21.6:1, from 23.5:1.

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