Public school / Primary
Drexel Elementary School
Tucson, Arizona
- NCES ID
- 040817000715
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Drexel Elementary School is a public primary school in Tucson, Arizona, run by Sunnyside Unified District (4407). It enrols 487 students — the 38844th 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
487
Teachers
24.0
Students per teacher
20.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
92.8%
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 Sunnyside Unified District (4407)
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.
- 1Sunnyside High School2,204 students
- 2Desert View High School2,169 students
- 3Gallego Intermediate Fine Arts Magnet School838 students
- 4Sierra 2-8 School794 students
- 5Elvira Elementary School695 students
- 6Challenger Middle School654 students
- 7Los Amigos Elementary School621 students
- 8Craycroft Elementary School590 students
- Enrollment+19.1%
- Teachers−20.0%
- Students per teacher+18.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+54.0%
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