Public school / Middle
Cactus Canyon Junior High
Apache Junction, Arizona
- NCES ID
- 040079000040
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Cactus Canyon Junior High is a public middle school in Apache Junction, Arizona, run by Apache Junction Unified District (4443). It enrols 702 students — the 19231st largest of 2,599 public schools in Arizona.
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
702
Teachers
36.0
Students per teacher
19.5
Free or reduced-price lunch
49.9%
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.
Within Apache Junction Unified District (4443)
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.
- 1Apache Junction High School999 students
- 2Cactus Canyon Junior High702 students
- 3Desert Vista Elementary School536 students
- 4Four Peaks Elementary School498 students
- 5Peralta Trail Elementary School286 students
- Enrollment+71.6%
- Teachers+20.0%
- Students per teacher+13.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−17.2%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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