Whittier Elementary School

Whittier Elementary School is an elementary school of moderately sized scale in MESA, Arizona, one of the schools within Mesa Unified District (4235), instructing 443 students in grades pre-K through 6.

Within Mesa Unified District (4235), which oversees 81 schools and 55,821 students, Whittier Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Whittier Elementary School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 57% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 19% White, 12% Native American, 6% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Maricopa County as a whole is about 31% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.7:1. The state averages about 17.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Maricopa County put median household earnings sit near $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 Whittier Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Webster Elementary School, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Whittier Elementary School.

Whittier Elementary School operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Whittier Elementary School has ticked down 18%, going from 538 students in 2018 to 443 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 26% to 19% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 today.

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