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Wickenburg, Arizona - 5 schools
An equity score of 43/100 ranks Wickenburg Unified District (4236) #161 of 437 districts in Arizona (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $10,362 per pupil, Wickenburg Unified District (4236) ranks #351 of 634 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending (Arizona districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
1,298
Total Enrollment
5
Schools
$10,362
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Wickenburg Unified District (4236) operates 5 public schools serving 1,298 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 $10,362 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 66.3% local, 22.6% state, and 11.0% 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 43/100, ranked #161 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 1 of 5 schools offering Advanced Placement (1 AP courses district-wide), a 213.5:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 53.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 50.3% White, 42.5% Hispanic or Latino, 2.7% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Festival Foothills Elementary School, with a diversity index of 66.0/100.
Its largest campus is Wickenburg High School, enrolling 384 students (36% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Wickenburg Virtual Academy, at 33 students, a 12x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Wickenburg High School accounts for 29.6% of all Wickenburg Unified District (4236) student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Wickenburg Unified District (4236)-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.
Wickenburg Unified District (4236) school enrollment varies 12× across entities
Wickenburg Unified District (4236) school enrollment ranges from 33 students (lowest) to 384 students (highest), a spread of 351 students. That spread reflects typical mixed-portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Wickenburg Unified District (4236) student-counselor ratio is 214:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Wickenburg Unified District (4236) chronic absenteeism rate is 53.5% — 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 Wickenburg Unified District (4236)'s own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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