Santa Fe Elementary School

Located at 9880 N 77TH AVE, in PEORIA, Arizona, Santa Fe Elementary School is a heavily attended elementary-level community that hosts 698 students (grades pre-K through 8), operated by Peoria Unified School District (4237). That puts it 55% above the typical public school in Arizona, which averages around 451 students.

Within Peoria Unified School District (4237), which oversees 44 schools and 34,436 students, Santa Fe Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Santa Fe Elementary School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 72% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 17% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average.

In the area at large, 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%. In all, Maricopa County runs 1352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students), of which Santa Fe Elementary School is one.

Academy of Math and Science Peoria Advanced is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Santa Fe Elementary School operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Santa Fe Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 16% since 2018, when it stood at 834 (now 698). White enrollment moved from 25% to 17% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 today.

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