An equity score of 48/100 ranks Heritage Elementary School (81076) #135 of 437 districts in Arizona (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $11,422 per pupil, Heritage Elementary School (81076) ranks #324 of 633 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending (Arizona districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Heritage Elementary School (81076) operates 2 public schools serving 892 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Arizona. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 elementary schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. 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 $11,422 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 633 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending. See how Arizona compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 2.6% local, 75.0% state, and 22.4% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 48/100, ranked #135 of 437 in Arizona against a state average of 38, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
and 50.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 49.1% Hispanic or Latino, 34.3% White, 10.1% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Heritage Elementary School, enrolling 832 students (94% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Heritage Elementary - Williams, at 52 students, a 16x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Heritage Elementary School accounts for 93.3% of all Heritage Elementary School (81076) student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Heritage Elementary School (81076) a distant remainder — means Heritage Elementary School (81076)-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: elementary. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Heritage Elementary School (81076) chronic absenteeism rate is 50.8% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 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.
Comparisons are relative to Heritage Elementary School (81076)'s own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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