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Public school / High

Central High School

Phoenix, Arizona

NCES ID
040633000542
District
Phoenix Union High School District (4286)
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Central High School is a public high school in Phoenix, Arizona, run by Phoenix Union High School District (4286). It enrols 1,901 students — the 2117th 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

1,901students

2117th nationally, tied with 3

Teachers

115.0FTE

1620th nationally, tied with 48

Students per teacher

16.5students

60758th nationally, tied with 785

Free or reduced-price lunch

92.0%percent

11159th nationally, tied with 90

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 Phoenix Union High School District (4286)

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. 1Trevor Browne High School2,921 students
  2. 2Maryvale High School2,795 students
  3. 3Cesar Chavez High School2,725 students
  4. 4Alhambra High School2,282 students
  5. 5Camelback High School2,238 students
  6. 6Carl Hayden High School2,217 students
  7. 7South Mountain High School2,146 students
  8. 8North High School2,135 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment+364.8%
  • Teachers+283.3%
  • Students per teacher−4.1%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+52.7%
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Where this sits

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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.