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Public school / Primary

Butterfield Elementary School

Maricopa, Arizona

NCES ID
040472002920
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Butterfield Elementary School is a public primary school in Maricopa, Arizona, run by Maricopa Unified School District (4441). It enrols 774 students — the 15418th largest of 2,599 public schools in Arizona.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

774students

15418th nationally, tied with 42

Teachers

50.0FTE

15022nd nationally, tied with 725

Students per teacher

15.5students

52263rd nationally, tied with 873

Free or reduced-price lunch

51.8%percent

48727th nationally, tied with 107

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Maricopa Unified School District (4441)

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Maricopa High School2,188 students
  2. 2Maricopa Wells Middle School934 students
  3. 3Desert Wind Middle School817 students
  4. 4Saddleback Elementary School795 students
  5. 5Butterfield Elementary School774 students
  6. 6Santa Cruz Elementary School764 students
  7. 7Maricopa Elementary School733 students
  8. 8Desert Sunrise High School615 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Arizona median across 2,599 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+89.2%
  • Teachers+66.7%
  • Students per teacher−9.9%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−14.0%
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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.