Public school / High
Pierson High School
Nogales, Arizona
- NCES ID
- 040553001552
- District
- Nogales Unified District (4457)
- School type
- Alternative
- Title I
- Not designated
Pierson High School is a public high school in Nogales, Arizona, run by Nogales Unified District (4457). It enrols 142 students — the 83553rd 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
142
Teachers
9.0
Students per teacher
15.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
85.2%
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 Nogales Unified District (4457)
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.
- 1Nogales High School1,796 students
- 2Desert Shadows Middle School760 students
- 3Wade Carpenter Middle School576 students
- 4Francisco Vasquez De Coronado Elementary School515 students
- 5Lincoln Elementary School438 students
- 6Challenger Elementary School374 students
- 7Mary L Welty Elementary School364 students
- 8A J Mitchell Elementary School314 students
- Enrollment−65.3%
- Teachers−70.0%
- Students per teacher−8.1%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+41.4%
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