Public school / High
Combs High School
San Tan Valley, Arizona
- NCES ID
- 040399002895
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Combs High School is a public high school in San Tan Valley, Arizona, run by J O Combs Unified School District (4445). It enrols 1,356 students — the 4623rd 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
1,356
Teachers
59.0
Students per teacher
23.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
36.9%
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 J O Combs Unified School District (4445)
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.
- 1Combs High School1,356 students
- 2J. O. Combs Middle School655 students
- 3Ellsworth Elementary School564 students
- 4Ranch Elementary School546 students
- 5Kathryn Sue Simonton Elementary470 students
- 6Jack Harmon Elementary School425 students
- 7Combs Traditional Academy227 students
- 8Combs Online School for Success84 students
- Enrollment+231.5%
- Teachers+96.7%
- Students per teacher+33.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−38.8%
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