Stapley Junior High School

Stapley Junior High School is one of the expansive middle schools in MESA, Arizona, run under Mesa Unified District (4235), with 899 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 9. Enrollment runs roughly 82% bigger than the state mean of about 494.

Mesa Unified District (4235) comprises 81 schools with combined enrollment of 55,821 students; Stapley Junior High School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Stapley Junior High School lists that 66% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder reads as 21% Hispanic, 7% Native American, 4% multiracial.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.8:1 average.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Maricopa County put 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. Stapley Junior High School is one of 1352 public schools in Maricopa County (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students).

The closest other public school is Ishikawa Elementary School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Stapley Junior High School.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 7%: 971 students in 2018 compared to 899 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 15% to 21% across the same window.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.