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Public school / Primary

Palm Lane

Phoenix, Arizona

NCES ID
040168000101
District
Cartwright Elementary District (4282)
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Palm Lane is a public primary school in Phoenix, Arizona, run by Cartwright Elementary District (4282). It enrols 638 students — the 23549th largest of 2,599 public schools in Arizona.

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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

638students

23549th nationally, tied with 82

Teachers

29.0FTE

43988th nationally, tied with 2,243

Students per teacher

22.0students

84134th nationally, tied with 274

Free or reduced-price lunch

77.9%percent

23801st nationally, tied with 105

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.

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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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Frank Borman School1,040 students
  2. 2Charles W. Harris School931 students
  3. 3Peralta School871 students
  4. 4Tomahawk School868 students
  5. 5Estrella Middle School810 students
  6. 6Cartwright School754 students
  7. 7Manuel Pena Jr. School749 students
  8. 8G. Frank Davidson740 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Arizona median across 2,599 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+56.0%
  • Teachers−3.3%
  • Students per teacher+27.9%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+29.3%
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Where this sits

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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.