Sonoran Sky Elementary School

Sonoran Sky Elementary School, an average-sized elementary-level community in GLENDALE, Arizona, part of Pendergast Elementary District (4283), instructs 537 students, covering grades pre-K through 8.

Sonoran Sky Elementary School is one of 12 schools operated by Pendergast Elementary District (4283), a district that works with 8,098 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Sonoran Sky Elementary School lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 68% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 15% Black, 10% White, 3% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Maricopa County as a whole is about 31% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 17.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers.

In the area at large, census data for Maricopa County shows median household income runs about $89,300, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Maricopa County's 1352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students), Sonoran Sky Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Arizona Insight Academy, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 20%: 668 students in 2018 compared to 537 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 17% to 10% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 in 2025.

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