Western Peaks Elementary

Western Peaks Elementary is one of the sprawling elementary schools in SURPRISE, Arizona, part of Dysart Unified District (4243), with 763 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 69% larger than the typical public school in Arizona, which averages around 451 students.

Dysart Unified District (4243) comprises 24 schools with combined enrollment of 23,078 students; Western Peaks Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Western Peaks Elementary logs that the most-represented group is White (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 35% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 7% Black, 2% Asian. By comparison, Maricopa County as a whole is about 59% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Western Peaks Elementary lists 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Maricopa County indicate the typical household earns roughly $89,300 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Maricopa County's 1352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students), Western Peaks Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Willow Canyon High School, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Western Peaks Elementary.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Western Peaks Elementary's enrollment has edged down 12% since 2018, when it stood at 867 (now 763). White enrollment moved from 61% to 44% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 18.1:1 in 2025.

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