Public school / Middle
Explorer Middle School
Phoenix, Arizona
- NCES ID
- 040593001230
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Explorer Middle School is a public middle school in Phoenix, Arizona, run by Paradise Valley Unified District (4241). It enrols 678 students — the 20674th 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
678
Teachers
34.0
Students per teacher
19.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
5.8%
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 Paradise Valley Unified District (4241)
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.
- 1Pinnacle High School2,479 students
- 2Horizon High School1,905 students
- 3Paradise Valley High School1,874 students
- 4North Canyon High School1,842 students
- 5Shadow Mountain High School1,109 students
- 6Desert Shadows Middle School780 students
- 7Fireside Elementary School730 students
- 8Mountain Trail Middle School680 students
- Enrollment+65.8%
- Teachers+13.3%
- Students per teacher+15.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−90.4%
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