Mesquite Elementary School

As a moderately sized elementary campus in CASA GRANDE, Arizona, Mesquite Elementary School serves 439 students from grades pre-K through 8, operated by Casa Grande Elementary District (4446).

Casa Grande Elementary District (4446) runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 6,630 students. Mesquite Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Mesquite Elementary School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 60% of enrollment. Other groups include 19% White, 9% Native American, 5% multiracial, 5% Black. By comparison, Pinal County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Mesquite Elementary School logs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.9:1. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Pinal County put median household earnings sit near $80,266, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Pinal County runs 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,837 students), of which Mesquite Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Path to Potential, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mesquite Elementary School.

Mesquite Elementary School operates from a city-core location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mesquite Elementary School has stayed largely flat, going from 446 students in 2018 to 439 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.