Mountain Shadows Elementary School

Mountain Shadows Elementary School, an average-sized elementary campus in GLENDALE, Arizona, part of Deer Valley Unified District (4246), instructs 426 students, covering grades pre-K through 6.

Within Deer Valley Unified District (4246), which oversees 41 schools and 32,265 students, Mountain Shadows Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Mountain Shadows Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 32% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 4% Black, 3% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, Mountain Shadows Elementary School records 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average.

In the surrounding community, 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 the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Maricopa County's 1352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students), Mountain Shadows Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Deer Valley Academy, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mountain Shadows Elementary School.

Mountain Shadows Elementary School operates from a city-core location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 9%: 468 students in 2018 compared to 426 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 59% to 52%.

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