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Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 5

Desert Sunset Elementary School, Buckeye, AZ

Desert Sunset Elementary School is a public elementary school in Buckeye, part of Saddle Mountain Unified School District (4254). It enrolled 648 students in 2024-25, with 23.1 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
648
Teachers (FTE)
28.0
Students per teacher
23.1
Grades
PK to 5

This school's ratio is 1.6 higher than the district figure of 21.5. The Arizona average across schools is 17.7. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school23.1
District21.5
Arizona17.7
United States15.3

School details

Address
30919 W. White Tanks Vista Dr, Buckeye, AZ 85396
Phone
(623)474-5601
District
Saddle Mountain Unified School District (4254)
County
Maricopa County
Level
Elementary
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Rural: Distant
NCES school ID
040717003804
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Direct certification
244Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
No

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other elementary schools in Saddle Mountain Unified School District (4254)

Elementary schools elsewhere in Buckeye

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.