Sahuarita Middle School

Sahuarita Middle School, a moderately sized intermediate school in SAHUARITA, Arizona, one of the schools within Sahuarita Unified District (4411), educates 498 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

Sahuarita Middle School is one of 10 schools operated by Sahuarita Unified District (4411), a district that educates 6,335 students overall.

Demographically, Sahuarita Middle School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 61% of enrollment. Other groups include 28% White, 6% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Pima County as a whole is about 36% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Sahuarita Middle School has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.3:1. That tracks the state average closely.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Pima County) logs that median household income runs about $70,315, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Pima County runs 398 public schools (combined enrollment of about 140,692 students), of which Sahuarita Middle School is one.

Sahuarita Intermediate School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 39%: 820 students in 2018 compared to 498 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 41% to 28% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 24.1:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 in 2025.

On this page, members of the Sahuarita Middle School community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.