Shadow Mountain High School

Shadow Mountain High School is a four-year high school of well-populated scale in PHOENIX, Arizona, one of the schools within Paradise Valley Unified District (4241), educateing 1,080 students in grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Arizona's public schools average about 631 students each, so Shadow Mountain High School sits 71% above that benchmark.

Paradise Valley Unified District (4241) runs 42 schools in total, collectively educating 26,183 students. Shadow Mountain High School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Shadow Mountain High School lists that the largest single group is White at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 34% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Black.

On the resource side, On paper, Shadow Mountain High School has 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.2:1 average.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Maricopa County shows median household earnings sit near $89,300, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Maricopa County runs 1352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students), of which Shadow Mountain High School is one.

The closest other public school is Shea Middle School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Shadow Mountain High School's enrollment has contracted 17% since 2018, when it stood at 1,308 (now 1,080). Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 29% to 34%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.