Mountain Pointe High School

Set in PHOENIX, Arizona, Mountain Pointe High School is a substantial senior high, run under Tempe Union High School District (4287). It educates 1,570 students across grades 9 through 12. That puts it 149% larger than the typical public school in Arizona, which averages around 631 students.

Tempe Union High School District (4287) runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 11,726 students. Mountain Pointe High School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mountain Pointe High School logs that 39% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 30% Black, 16% White, 7% multiracial, 6% Native American.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 78 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely.

Across the wider county, census data for Maricopa County shows median household income runs about $89,300, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Maricopa County's 1352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students), Mountain Pointe High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Kyrene de las Lomas School, roughly 1.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mountain Pointe High School.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Five-year trend. Mountain Pointe High School's enrollment has contracted 39% since 2018, when it stood at 2,578 (now 1,570). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 31% to 16%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 22.5:1 in 2018 to 20.1:1 in 2025.

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