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Phoenix, Arizona - 3 schools
An equity score of 29/100 ranks Pointe Schools (79455) #266 of 437 districts in Arizona (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $9,863 per pupil, Pointe Schools (79455) ranks #402 of 634 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending (Arizona districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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$9,863
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Pointe Schools (79455) operates 3 public schools serving 645 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Arizona. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 elementary, 1 combined 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 $9,863 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 4.0% local, 85.2% state, and 10.8% 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 29/100, ranked #266 of 437 in Arizona against a state average of 38, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
and 55.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Use the school table below to drill into any individual campus for its own demographic and resource profile.
Its largest campus is North Pointe Preparatory, enrolling 432 students (67% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Canyon Pointe Academy, at 77 students, a 6x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
North Pointe Preparatory accounts for 67.0% of all Pointe Schools (79455) student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Pointe Schools (79455) a distant remainder — means Pointe Schools (79455)-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. 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.
Pointe Schools (79455) school enrollment varies 5.6× across entities
Pointe Schools (79455) school enrollment ranges from 77 students (lowest) to 432 students (highest), a spread of 355 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Pointe Schools (79455) chronic absenteeism rate is 55.1% — 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.