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Marana, Arizona - 20 schools
An equity score of 42/100 ranks Marana Unified District (4404) #167 of 437 districts in Arizona (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $9,931 per pupil, Marana Unified District (4404) ranks #394 of 634 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending (Arizona districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
12,823
Total Enrollment
20
Schools
$9,931
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Marana Unified District (4404) operates 20 public schools serving 12,823 students, placing it in the mid-size range in Arizona. The school portfolio breaks down into 15 combined, 3 high, 2 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 Pima County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $9,931 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 42.4% local, 43.4% state, and 14.2% 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 42/100, ranked #167 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 2 of 20 schools offering Advanced Placement (42 AP courses district-wide), a 379.7:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 56.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 48.7% White, 41.8% Hispanic or Latino, 2.2% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Degrazia Elementary School, with a diversity index of 61.6/100.
Its largest campus is Marana High School, enrolling 2,437 students (19% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is A. C. E., at 1 students, a 2437x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Marana High School accounts for 19.0% of all Marana Unified District (4404) student enrollment
That concentration means Marana Unified District (4404)-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Marana Unified District (4404) school enrollment varies 2437× across entities
Marana Unified District (4404) school enrollment ranges from 1 students (lowest) to 2,437 students (highest), a spread of 2,436 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Marana Unified District (4404) student-counselor ratio is 380:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Marana Unified District (4404) chronic absenteeism rate is 56.8% — 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 Marana Unified District (4404)'s own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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