Royal Palm Middle School

Located at 8520 N 19TH AVE, in PHOENIX, Arizona, Royal Palm Middle School is a mid-sized 6-8 campus that hosts 465 students (grades 5 through 8), operated by Washington Elementary School District (4260).

Royal Palm Middle School is one of 33 schools operated by Washington Elementary School District (4260), a district that works with 18,816 students overall.

On demographics, Royal Palm Middle School reports that 65% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder looks like 12% White, 11% Black, 7% Native American, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 31% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.2:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely.

In the surrounding community, census data for Maricopa County shows the typical household earns roughly $89,300 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Maricopa County's 1352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students), Royal Palm Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Washington Elementary School District Online Learning Academ, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Royal Palm Middle School has ticked down 33%, going from 695 students in 2018 to 465 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 in 2025.

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