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Public school / High

Desert Edge High School

Goodyear, Arizona

NCES ID
040045002273
District
Agua Fria Union High School District (4289)
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Desert Edge High School is a public high school in Goodyear, Arizona, run by Agua Fria Union High School District (4289). It enrols 1,991 students — the 1838th 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

1,991students

1838th nationally, tied with 7

Teachers

84.0FTE

4276th nationally, tied with 139

Students per teacher

23.7students

87595th nationally, tied with 179

Free or reduced-price lunch

50.9%percent

49608th nationally, tied with 100

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 Agua Fria Union High School District (4289)

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. 1Millennium High School2,121 students
  2. 2Canyon View High School2,014 students
  3. 3Desert Edge High School1,991 students
  4. 4Verrado High School1,854 students
  5. 5Agua Fria High School1,652 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment+386.8%
  • Teachers+180.0%
  • Students per teacher+37.8%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−15.5%
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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.