Public school / Primary
Joseph P. Spracale Elementary School
Tempe, Arizona
- NCES ID
- 040831000777
- District
- Tempe School District (4258)
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Joseph P. Spracale Elementary School is a public primary school in Tempe, Arizona, run by Tempe School District (4258). It enrols 364 students — the 56382nd 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
364
Teachers
29.0
Students per teacher
12.6
Free or reduced-price lunch
59.6%
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 Tempe School District (4258)
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.
- 1Connolly Middle School984 students
- 2Fees College Preparatory Middle School789 students
- 3Geneva Epps Mosley Middle School755 students
- 4Nevitt Elementary School702 students
- 5Broadmor Elementary School598 students
- 6Cecil Shamley School549 students
- 7Fuller Elementary School517 students
- 8Wood School516 students
- Enrollment−11.0%
- Teachers−3.3%
- Students per teacher−26.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−1.1%
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