North Canyon High School

Set in PHOENIX, Arizona, North Canyon High School is a high-enrollment four-year high school, overseen by Paradise Valley Unified District (4241). It works with 1,560 students across grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Arizona's public schools average about 631 students each, so North Canyon High School sits 147% larger than that benchmark.

North Canyon High School is one of 42 schools operated by Paradise Valley Unified District (4241), a district that serves 26,183 students overall.

In terms of who attends, North Canyon High School records that 64% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 20% White, 8% Black, 5% multiracial, 2% Native American. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 81 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 20.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Maricopa County put median household earnings sit near $89,300, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. North Canyon High School is one of 1352 public schools in Maricopa County (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students).

Nearest neighbor: Echo Mountain Intermediate School, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at North Canyon High School has fell 16%, going from 1,864 students in 2018 to 1,560 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 30% to 20% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 23.3:1 in 2018 to 19.2:1 in 2025.

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