Maryland Elementary School

As a moderately sized primary school in PHOENIX, Arizona, Maryland Elementary School caters to 594 students from grades pre-K through 8, one of the schools within Washington Elementary School District (4260). By comparison, Arizona's public schools average about 451 students each, so Maryland Elementary School sits 32% above that benchmark.

Washington Elementary School District (4260) comprises 33 schools with combined enrollment of 18,816 students; Maryland Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Maryland Elementary School records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 19% Black, 10% White, 7% multiracial, 6% Native American. By comparison, Maricopa County as a whole is about 31% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Maryland Elementary School records 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.6:1. The state averages about 17.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Maricopa County) reports that median household income runs about $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 Maryland Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Washington High School, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 28%: 827 students in 2018 compared to 594 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 48% to 53%.

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