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Phoenix, Arizona - 19 schools
An equity score of 65/100 ranks Roosevelt Elementary District (4279) #37 of 437 districts in Arizona (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $13,151 per pupil, Roosevelt Elementary District (4279) ranks #179 of 634 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending (Arizona districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
7,214
Total Enrollment
19
Schools
$13,151
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Roosevelt Elementary District (4279) operates 19 public schools serving 7,214 students, placing it among the smaller districts in Arizona. The school portfolio breaks down into 16 combined, 3 elementary schools, a compact enough portfolio that families can compare every campus directly 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 $13,151 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 39.7% local, 31.1% state, and 29.3% 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 65/100, ranked #37 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.
a 441.2:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 60.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 79.5% Hispanic or Latino, 13.2% African American, 2.5% White across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Bernard Black Elementary School, with a diversity index of 59.2/100.
Its largest campus is Valley View School, enrolling 577 students (8% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Iamrsdonline Academy, at 87 students, a 7x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Roosevelt Elementary District (4279) school enrollment varies 6.6× across entities
Roosevelt Elementary District (4279) school enrollment ranges from 87 students (lowest) to 577 students (highest), a spread of 490 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.
Roosevelt Elementary District (4279) has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 81.4% 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). Areas above 75% eligibility — including this one — receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. 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.
Roosevelt Elementary District (4279) student-counselor ratio is 441:1 — 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.
Roosevelt Elementary District (4279) chronic absenteeism rate is 60.4% — 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 Roosevelt Elementary District (4279)'s own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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