Public school / Primary
Western Peaks Elementary
Surprise, Arizona
- NCES ID
- 040269002679
- District
- Dysart Unified District (4243)
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Western Peaks Elementary is a public primary school in Surprise, Arizona, run by Dysart Unified District (4243). It enrols 628 students — the 24330th 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
628
Teachers
36.0
Students per teacher
17.4
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 Dysart Unified District (4243)
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.
- 1Valley Vista High School2,464 students
- 2Shadow Ridge High School2,323 students
- 3Willow Canyon High School1,787 students
- 4Dysart High School1,433 students
- 5Marley Park Elementary1,084 students
- 6Asante Preparatory Academy1,004 students
- 7Sunset Hills Elementary969 students
- 8Canyon Ridge School944 students
- Enrollment+53.5%
- Teachers+20.0%
- Students per teacher+1.2%
- 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