Wakefield Middle School

As an intimate intermediate school in TUCSON, Arizona, Wakefield Middle School educates 295 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within Tucson Unified District (4403). Enrollment runs roughly 40% leaner than the state mean of about 494.

Wakefield Middle School is one of 88 schools operated by Tucson Unified District (4403), a district that teaches 40,316 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Wakefield Middle School shows that 82% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 10% White, 5% Native American. By comparison, Pima County as a whole is about 36% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.8:1, putting Wakefield Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Pima County indicate the typical household earns roughly $70,315 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Pima County's 398 public schools (combined enrollment of about 140,692 students), Wakefield Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Hollinger K-8 School, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Wakefield Middle School.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

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