Weinberg Gifted Academy

Set in GILBERT, Arizona, Weinberg Gifted Academy is a sprawling elementary school, one of the schools within Chandler Unified District #80 (4242). It teaches 741 students across grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 64% above the state mean of about 451.

Within Chandler Unified District #80 (4242), which oversees 48 schools and 41,421 students, Weinberg Gifted Academy is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Weinberg Gifted Academy records that the largest single group is White at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 27% Asian, 11% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 59%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Maricopa County indicate median household income runs about $89,300, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Maricopa County runs 1352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students), of which Weinberg Gifted Academy is one.

Perry High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Weinberg Gifted Academy's enrollment has shrank 7% since 2018, when it stood at 795 (now 741). White enrollment moved from 77% to 48% across the same window.

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