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Tolleson, Arizona - 5 schools
An equity score of 48/100 ranks Tolleson Elementary District (4264) #137 of 437 districts in Arizona (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $10,791 per pupil, Tolleson Elementary District (4264) ranks #318 of 634 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending (Arizona districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
2,859
Total Enrollment
5
Schools
$10,791
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Tolleson Elementary District (4264) operates 5 public schools serving 2,859 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Arizona. The school portfolio breaks down into 4 combined, 1 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 $10,791 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 34.2% local, 40.2% state, and 25.6% 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 48/100, ranked #137 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 366.3:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 53.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 79.9% Hispanic or Latino, 12.5% African American, 3.4% White across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Sheely Farms Elementary School, with a diversity index of 48.9/100.
Its largest campus is Arizona Desert Elementary School, enrolling 843 students (28% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Tolleson Virtual Academy, at 37 students, a 23x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Arizona Desert Elementary School accounts for 28.4% of all Tolleson Elementary District (4264) student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Tolleson Elementary District (4264)-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.
Tolleson Elementary District (4264) school enrollment varies 23× across entities
Tolleson Elementary District (4264) school enrollment ranges from 37 students (lowest) to 843 students (highest), a spread of 806 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Tolleson Elementary District (4264) has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 72.4% 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). 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.
Tolleson Elementary District (4264) student-counselor ratio is 366:1 — 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.
Tolleson Elementary District (4264) chronic absenteeism rate is 53.7% — 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 Tolleson Elementary District (4264)'s own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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