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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Primary

San Tan Elementary

Gilbert, Arizona

NCES ID
040378002118
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

San Tan Elementary is a public primary school in Gilbert, Arizona, run by Higley Unified School District (4248). It enrols 911 students — the 10559th 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

911students

10559th nationally, tied with 27

Teachers

49.0FTE

15748th nationally, tied with 748

Students per teacher

18.6students

73345th nationally, tied with 420

Free or reduced-price lunch

13.0%percent

81541st nationally, tied with 81

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 Higley Unified School District (4248)

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. 1Higley High School2,137 students
  2. 2Williams Field High School2,115 students
  3. 3Sossaman Middle School1,043 students
  4. 4San Tan Elementary911 students
  5. 5Cooley Middle School873 students
  6. 6Chaparral Elementary School806 students
  7. 7Gateway Pointe Elementary767 students
  8. 8Higley Traditional Academy761 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment+122.7%
  • Teachers+63.3%
  • Students per teacher+8.1%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−78.4%
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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.