Public school / Primary
Gowan Science Academy
Yuma, Arizona
- NCES ID
- 040240003323
- District
- Crane Elementary District (4501)
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Gowan Science Academy is a public primary school in Yuma, Arizona, run by Crane Elementary District (4501). It enrols 738 students — the 17248th 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
738
Teachers
31.0
Students per teacher
23.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
25.7%
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 Crane Elementary District (4501)
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.
- 1Gowan Science Academy738 students
- 2Centennial Middle School715 students
- 3Salida Del Sol Elementary696 students
- 4Mesquite Elementary628 students
- 5Crane Middle School610 students
- 6Gary A. Knox Elementary School582 students
- 7Pueblo Elementary School562 students
- 8H L Suverkrup Elementary School559 students
- Enrollment+80.4%
- Teachers+3.3%
- Students per teacher+38.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−57.3%
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