Palo Verde Middle School

Palo Verde Middle School is a high-enrollment middle school in PHOENIX, Arizona. Students in grades 7 through 8 attend, and enrollment is 797 students. The typical figure for middle schools in Arizona is about 494 students.

Washington Elementary School District (4260) enrolls 18,816 students in 33 schools, including Palo Verde Middle School.

Hispanic students make up a majority at Palo Verde Middle School, at 65%. The next largest groups are 15% Black, 10% White, 6% Asian, and 3% multiracial. In Maricopa County overall, about 31% of residents are Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 54% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.

The school reported 44 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25 and a ratio of 18.1:1. That is close to the 17.8:1 average for middle schools in Arizona.

allk12 grades Palo Verde Middle School a C+. The grade compares the school only with Arizona public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.

In the county around the school, Maricopa County, the median household income is $89,300, about 37% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 8%. Maricopa County is home to 1,352 public schools and about 725,139 public school students.

The closest public school, Roadrunner Elementary School, is about 0.3 miles from Palo Verde Middle School. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

By NCES locale, the school is City: Large, or inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.

Enrollment is down 20% from 2020-21, when Palo Verde Middle School had 1,001 students, to 2024-25, when it had 797. Students per teacher rose from 17.0 in 2020-21 to 18.1 in 2024-25.

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