Public school / Primary
Garfield School
Phoenix, Arizona
- NCES ID
- 040630000525
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Garfield School is a public primary school in Phoenix, Arizona, run by Phoenix Elementary District (4256). It enrols 454 students — the 43293rd 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
454
Teachers
27.0
Students per teacher
16.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
89.6%
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 Phoenix Elementary District (4256)
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.
- 1Silvestre S Herrera School517 students
- 2Kenilworth Elementary School488 students
- 3Capitol Elementary School466 students
- 4Garfield School454 students
- 5Augustus H. Shaw Montessori453 students
- 6Thomas A Edison School426 students
- 7Maie Bartlett Heard School422 students
- 8Magnet Traditional School419 students
- Enrollment+11.0%
- Teachers−10.0%
- Students per teacher−2.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+48.7%
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