Public school
Elona P. Cooley Early Child Development Center
Gilbert, Arizona
- NCES ID
- 040378003417
- School type
- Special education
- Title I
- Not designated
Elona P. Cooley Early Child Development Center is a public school in Gilbert, Arizona, run by Higley Unified School District (4248). It enrols 81 students — the 89018th 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
81
Teachers
13.0
Students per teacher
6.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
45.7%
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 Higley Unified School District (4248)
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.
- 1Higley High School2,137 students
- 2Williams Field High School2,115 students
- 3Sossaman Middle School1,043 students
- 4San Tan Elementary911 students
- 5Cooley Middle School873 students
- 6Chaparral Elementary School806 students
- 7Gateway Pointe Elementary767 students
- 8Higley Traditional Academy761 students
- Enrollment−80.2%
- Teachers−56.7%
- Students per teacher−64.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−24.1%
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