PPEP TEC - Alice S. Paul Learning Center

PPEP TEC - Alice S. Paul Learning Center operates as a micro-enrollment high school in CASA GRANDE, Arizona, one of the schools within Portable Practical Educational Preparation Inc. ( (4431). Current enrollment sits at 101 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 84% below the typical public school in Arizona, which averages around 631 students.

Within Portable Practical Educational Preparation Inc. ( (4431), which oversees 6 schools and 740 students, PPEP TEC - Alice S. Paul Learning Center is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PPEP TEC - Alice S. Paul Learning Center lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 62%. Beyond that, the school logs 19% Native American, 9% White, 8% Black. By comparison, Pinal County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.2:1, putting PPEP TEC - Alice S. Paul Learning Center tighter than the state norm the norm.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Pinal County put the typical household earns roughly $80,266 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Pinal County runs 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,837 students), of which PPEP TEC - Alice S. Paul Learning Center is one.

The closest other public school is Saguaro Elementary School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a city-core site. As a public charter, PPEP TEC - Alice S. Paul Learning Center runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PPEP TEC - Alice S. Paul Learning Center has showed little movement, going from 100 students in 2018 to 101 in 2025.

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