Sunflower School

Sunflower School, a rural-scale all-grades campus in GLENDALE, Arizona, run under Peoria Unified School District (4237), instructs 21 students, covering grades pre-K through 12. By comparison, Arizona's public schools average about 550 students each, so Sunflower School sits 96% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Peoria Unified School District (4237), which oversees 44 schools and 34,436 students, Sunflower School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Sunflower School lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 33% White, 10% Native American, 5% Asian, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.

On the income-and-resources front, Sunflower School logs 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 7.0:1. The state averages around 21.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

In the surrounding community, census data for Maricopa County shows the typical household earns roughly $89,300 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Maricopa County's 1352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students), Sunflower School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Canyon Elementary School, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Sunflower School's enrollment has contracted 42% since 2018, when it stood at 36 (now 21). Over the same period, the Black share fell from 14% to 0%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 6.0:1 in 2018 to 7.0:1 today.

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