Sandpiper Elementary School

Sandpiper Elementary School is a mid-tier primary school in SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, one of the schools within Paradise Valley Unified District (4241). The school works with 429 students in grades pre-K through 6.

Paradise Valley Unified District (4241) comprises 42 schools with combined enrollment of 26,183 students; Sandpiper Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Sandpiper Elementary School lists that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 40% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 59%.

On the resource side, The school lists 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.0:1. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

Across the wider county, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Sandpiper Elementary School is one of 1352 public schools in Maricopa County (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students).

The closest other public school is Arizona Language Preparatory, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 30%: 612 students in 2018 compared to 429 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 22% to 40%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 in 2025.

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