Verrado Middle School

Verrado Middle School, a reasonably sized 6-8 campus in BUCKEYE, Arizona, operated by Litchfield Elementary District (4281), caters to 731 students, covering grades 5 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 494 students per school, that is 48% bigger than typical.

Verrado Middle School is one of 16 schools operated by Litchfield Elementary District (4281), a district that works with 10,755 students overall.

Demographically, Verrado Middle School shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 40% White, 6% multiracial, 5% Black, 3% Asian. By comparison, Maricopa County as a whole is about 31% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Verrado Middle School shows 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.8:1, putting Verrado Middle School higher than the state norm the norm.

In the surrounding community, Maricopa County reports that median household income runs about $89,300, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Maricopa County runs 1352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students), of which Verrado Middle School is one.

Verrado Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Verrado Middle School.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 13%: 841 students in 2018 compared to 731 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 57% to 40%. Class-load math has fell: from 23.7:1 in 2018 to 21.2:1 in 2025.

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