South Pointe Junior High School

South Pointe Junior High School is the name of a very small middle school in PHOENIX, Arizona. The school enrolls 124 students in grades 6 through 8. That compares with an average of about 494 students for middle schools in Arizona.

South Pointe Junior High School is its own local education agency in federal data.

No group is above 50% at South Pointe Junior High School; the largest is Hispanic, at 47%. It is also 40% Black, 7% Native American, and 4% multiracial. Maricopa County's residents are about 31% Hispanic, 16 points below the school's share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, South Pointe Junior High School scores 61%.

South Pointe Junior High School lists 12 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 10.3 students per teacher. The gap from the 17.8:1 average for middle schools in Arizona is 7.4 students per teacher.

The school is in Maricopa County, where the median household earns about $89,300 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 37% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. South Pointe Junior High School shares Maricopa County with 1,351 other public schools.

Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Kaizen Education Foundation dba Quest High School, is less than a tenth of a mile. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8.

Its NCES locale code is City: Large: the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. South Pointe Junior High School is a charter school, a type of public school that operates under a charter.

Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased 27%.

South Pointe Junior High School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.