Shumway Leadership Academy

As a medium-sized K-5 school in CHANDLER, Arizona, Shumway Leadership Academy hosts 474 students from grades pre-K through 6, run under Chandler Unified District #80 (4242).

Chandler Unified District #80 (4242) runs 48 schools in total, collectively educating 41,421 students. Shumway Leadership Academy is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Shumway Leadership Academy logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 23% White, 9% multiracial, 6% Asian, 5% Black. By comparison, Maricopa County as a whole is about 31% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Shumway Leadership Academy logs 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Maricopa County indicate median household earnings sit near $89,300, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Shumway Leadership Academy is one of 1352 public schools in Maricopa County (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students).

Nearest neighbor: Legacy Traditional School ? North Chandler, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Shumway Leadership Academy's enrollment has edged down 3% since 2018, when it stood at 487 (now 474). White enrollment moved from 30% to 23% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

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