Public school / Middle
Thunderbolt Middle School
Lake Havasu City, Arizona
- NCES ID
- 040428000338
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Thunderbolt Middle School is a public middle school in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, run by Lake Havasu Unified District (4368). It enrols 851 students — the 12300th 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
851
Teachers
31.0
Students per teacher
27.5
Free or reduced-price lunch
40.9%
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 Lake Havasu Unified District (4368)
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.
- 1Lake Havasu High School1,813 students
- 2Thunderbolt Middle School851 students
- 3Starline Elementary School636 students
- 4Smoketree Elementary School621 students
- 5Jamaica Elementary School402 students
- 6Nautilus Elementary School360 students
- 7Havasupai Elementary School338 students
- 8Oro Grande Classical Academy333 students
- Enrollment+108.1%
- Teachers+3.3%
- Students per teacher+59.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−32.1%
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