Reyes Maria Ruiz Leadership Academy

As a cozy K-5 school in PHOENIX, Arizona, Reyes Maria Ruiz Leadership Academy works with 331 students from grades pre-K through 6, overseen by Espiritu Community Development Corp. (92250). That puts it 27% below the typical public school in Arizona, which averages around 451 students.

Operationally, Reyes Maria Ruiz Leadership Academy answers to Espiritu Community Development Corp. (92250), which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On demographics, Reyes Maria Ruiz Leadership Academy shows that 94% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder is composed of 3% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Maricopa County indicate median household earnings sit near $89,300, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Maricopa County's 1352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students), Reyes Maria Ruiz Leadership Academy is one campus in the mix.

ASU Preparatory Academy - South Phoenix Intermediate is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area. Reyes Maria Ruiz Leadership Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Reyes Maria Ruiz Leadership Academy has ticked down 42%, going from 566 students in 2018 to 331 in 2025.

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