Public school / Middle
Desert Sky Middle School
Tucson, Arizona
- NCES ID
- 040885002194
- District
- Vail Unified District (4413)
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Desert Sky Middle School is a public middle school in Tucson, Arizona, run by Vail Unified District (4413). It enrols 764 students — the 15898th 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
764
Teachers
38.0
Students per teacher
20.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
23.8%
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 Vail Unified District (4413)
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.
- 1Cienega High School1,913 students
- 2Mica Mountain High1,161 students
- 3Empire High School876 students
- 4Old Vail Middle School798 students
- 5Desert Sky Middle School764 students
- 6Acacia Elementary School743 students
- 7Esmond Station School740 students
- 8Mesquite Elementary School736 students
- Enrollment+86.8%
- Teachers+26.7%
- Students per teacher+16.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−60.5%
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