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Phoenix, Arizona - 4 schools
An equity score of 39/100 ranks Riverside Elementary District (4257) #194 of 437 districts in Arizona (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $12,049 per pupil, Riverside Elementary District (4257) ranks #234 of 634 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending (Arizona districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
822
Total Enrollment
4
Schools
$12,049
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Riverside Elementary District (4257) operates 4 public schools serving 822 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Arizona. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 elementary, 1 combined, 1 middle 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 $12,049 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 634 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending. See how Arizona compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 77.5% local, 5.2% state, and 17.3% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 39/100, ranked #194 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.
and 47.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 74.2% Hispanic or Latino, 12.8% African American, 9.0% White across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Maricopa Institute of Technology (Mit), with a diversity index of 45.1/100.
Riverside Traditional School accounts for 46.4% of all Riverside Elementary District (4257) student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Riverside Elementary District (4257) a distant remainder — means Riverside Elementary District (4257)-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.
Riverside Elementary District (4257) school enrollment varies 76× across entities
Riverside Elementary District (4257) school enrollment ranges from 5 students (lowest) to 381 students (highest), a spread of 376 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.
Riverside Elementary District (4257) has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 62.8% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Eligibility here is approaching the 75% concentration-grant threshold; it does not yet unlock the extra funding tier but sits meaningfully above the baseline 50% majority mark. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Riverside Elementary District (4257) chronic absenteeism rate is 47.0% — 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 Riverside Elementary District (4257)'s own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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