Oakwood Elementary School

Oakwood Elementary School, a well-populated elementary campus in PEORIA, Arizona, run under Peoria Unified School District (4237), hosts 937 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Arizona's public schools average about 451 students each, so Oakwood Elementary School sits 108% above that benchmark.

Across the 44 schools in Peoria Unified School District (4237) (34,436 students total), Oakwood Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Oakwood Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 56%; the rest reads as 31% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Maricopa County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average.

In the surrounding community, census data for Maricopa County shows the typical household earns roughly $89,300 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Oakwood Elementary School is one of 1352 public schools in Maricopa County (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students).

The closest other public school is RCB College Preparatory Academy, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Oakwood Elementary School has contracted 6%, going from 1,000 students in 2018 to 937 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 64% to 56% across the same window.

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