Peralta Trail Elementary School

Peralta Trail Elementary School is an elementary school of low-enrollment scale in Apache Junction, Arizona, overseen by Apache Junction Unified District (4443), hosting 282 students in grades K through 6. By comparison, Arizona's public schools average about 451 students each, so Peralta Trail Elementary School sits 37% below that benchmark.

Apache Junction Unified District (4443) comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,440 students; Peralta Trail Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Peralta Trail Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 62%. Other groups include 26% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Pinal County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Peralta Trail Elementary School has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Pinal County) shows that median household earnings sit near $80,266, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Pinal County runs 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,837 students), of which Peralta Trail Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Desert Vista Elementary School, around 6.4 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Over the past 7-year window. Peralta Trail Elementary School's enrollment has declined 43% since 2018, when it stood at 491 (now 282).

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.