Public school / Middle
Marc T. Atkinson Middle School & Gifted Academy
Phoenix, Arizona
- NCES ID
- 040168002005
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Marc T. Atkinson Middle School & Gifted Academy is a public middle school in Phoenix, Arizona, run by Cartwright Elementary District (4282). It enrols 184 students — the 79632nd 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
184
Teachers
11.0
Students per teacher
16.7
Free or reduced-price lunch
76.1%
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 Cartwright Elementary District (4282)
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.
- 1Frank Borman School1,040 students
- 2Charles W. Harris School931 students
- 3Peralta School871 students
- 4Tomahawk School868 students
- 5Estrella Middle School810 students
- 6Cartwright School754 students
- 7Manuel Pena Jr. School749 students
- 8G. Frank Davidson740 students
- Enrollment−55.0%
- Teachers−63.3%
- Students per teacher−2.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+26.3%
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