PXU City

PXU City is a four-year high school of rural-scale scale in PHOENIX, Arizona, run under Phoenix Union High School District (4286), hosting 85 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 87% smaller than the typical public school in Arizona, which averages around 631 students.

Phoenix Union High School District (4286) runs 20 schools in total, collectively educating 25,800 students. PXU City is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, PXU City records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 72% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 15% Black, 4% White, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 42.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.2:1, putting PXU City higher than the state norm the norm.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Maricopa County) logs that median household earnings sit near $89,300, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Maricopa County runs 1352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students), of which PXU City is one.

Nearest neighbor: Central High School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PXU City.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

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