Tartesso Elementary School

Tartesso Elementary School is a low-enrollment K-5 school in BUCKEYE, Arizona, part of Saddle Mountain Unified School District (4254). The school hosts 340 students in grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 451 students per school, that is 25% below typical.

Tartesso Elementary School is one of 5 schools operated by Saddle Mountain Unified School District (4254), a district that educates 3,265 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Tartesso Elementary School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 57% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 29% White, 8% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 31% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Maricopa County) records that median household income runs about $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. Tartesso Elementary School is one of 1352 public schools in Maricopa County (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students).

Nearest neighbor: Desert Sunset Elementary School, around 1.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 31%: 490 students in 2018 compared to 340 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 31% to 57% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 18.4:1 in 2025.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.