Mesquite Jr High School

Mesquite Jr High School, a mid-tier junior high in GILBERT, Arizona, part of Gilbert Unified District (4239), caters to 648 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Arizona's public schools average about 494 students each, so Mesquite Jr High School sits 31% larger than that benchmark.

Gilbert Unified District (4239) comprises 38 schools with combined enrollment of 31,560 students; Mesquite Jr High School is among them.

Demographically, Mesquite Jr High School records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 38% White, 6% Black, 6% multiracial, 3% Native American. By comparison, Maricopa County as a whole is about 31% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.8:1 average.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Maricopa County indicate the typical household earns roughly $89,300 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Mesquite Jr High School is one of 1352 public schools in Maricopa County (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students).

Gilbert Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mesquite Jr High School.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Mesquite Jr High School's enrollment has declined 34% since 2018, when it stood at 980 (now 648). Over the same period, the White share declined from 49% to 38%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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