Mesquite Elementary School

Mesquite Elementary School is an elementary campus of mid-sized scale in TUCSON, Arizona, one of the schools within Vail Unified District (4413), educateing 640 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 42% bigger than the state mean of about 451.

Vail Unified District (4413) runs 24 schools in total, collectively educating 15,011 students. Mesquite Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Mesquite Elementary School records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 35% White, 12% multiracial, 5% Black, 4% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.4:1. That tracks the state average closely.

In the area at large, census data for Pima County shows the typical household earns roughly $70,315 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Pima County's 398 public schools (combined enrollment of about 140,692 students), Mesquite Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Desert Sky Middle School, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Mesquite Elementary School's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 647 (now 640). The White share of enrollment contracted from 45% to 35% over that span.

On allk12, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.