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Chandler, Arizona - 44 schools
An equity score of 33/100 ranks Chandler Unified District #80 (4242) #224 of 437 districts in Arizona (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $9,696 per pupil, Chandler Unified District #80 (4242) ranks #418 of 634 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending (Arizona districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
43,716
Total Enrollment
44
Schools
$9,696
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Chandler Unified District #80 (4242) operates 44 public schools serving 43,716 students, placing it in the mid-size range in Arizona. The school portfolio breaks down into 38 combined, 6 middle schools, giving families a clear picture of grade-band coverage before they move, rent, or enrol. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Maricopa County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $9,696 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 634 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending. See how Arizona compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 42.7% local, 44.2% state, and 13.1% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 33/100, ranked #224 of 437 in Arizona against a state average of 38, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 7 of 44 schools offering Advanced Placement (249 AP courses district-wide), a 549.7:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 36.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 40.5% White, 33.7% Hispanic or Latino, 11.3% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Hamilton High School, with a diversity index of 75.1/100.
Its largest campus is Hamilton High School, enrolling 3,444 students (8% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Chandler Online Academy, at 294 students, a 12x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Chandler Unified District #80 (4242) school enrollment varies 12× across entities
Chandler Unified District #80 (4242) school enrollment ranges from 294 students (lowest) to 3,444 students (highest), a spread of 3,150 students. That spread reflects typical mixed-portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Chandler Unified District #80 (4242) student-counselor ratio is 550:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Chandler Unified District #80 (4242) chronic absenteeism rate is 36.6% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Comparisons are relative to Chandler Unified District #80 (4242)'s own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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