Scales Technology Academy

Scales Technology Academy is a small elementary school in TEMPE, Arizona, under Tempe School District (4258). Students in pre-K through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 375 students.

Tempe School District (4258) runs Scales Technology Academy along with 21 other schools, enrolling 10,045 students in total.

Hispanic students are 52% of those enrolled at Scales Technology Academy. The rest of enrollment is 26% Black, 7% White, 6% Native American, and 6% multiracial. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Maricopa County's population at about 31%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 65%.

Scales Technology Academy lists 26.7 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 14.1 students per teacher. Across elementary schools in Arizona, the average ratio is 17.0:1.

On the allk12 Grade, Scales Technology Academy lands at C, ahead of 29% of Arizona public elementary schools.

For the population of Maricopa County, the median household earns about $89,300 a year, about 37% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. Across Maricopa County, 1,352 public schools serve about 725,139 students.

Of the public schools around it, Scales Technology Academy is closest to Geneva Epps Mosley Middle School, about 0.5 miles away. Scales Technology Academy has at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Mid-size, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

In 2024-25, the school enrolled 375, down from 481 in 2020-21. By 2024-25, the school had 14.1 students per teacher, compared with 17.8 in 2020-21.

Scales Technology Academy has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.