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Gadsden Elementary District (4505), AZ: schools, enrollment and spending
Gadsden Elementary District (4505) runs 10 public schools with 5,196 students in grades PK to 8. Its ratio of 27.6 students per teacher is 9.9 higher than the Arizona figure of 17.7.
At a glance
- Schools
- 10
- Students
- 5,196
- Teachers (FTE)
- 188
- Students per teacher
- 27.6
- AZ: 17.7 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 1345 E. Cesar Chavez Blvd, San Luis, AZ 85349
- Phone
- (928)627-6540
- County
- Yuma County
- Locale
- Town: Distant
- Grades offered
- PK to 8
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 0403240
- State district ID
- AZ-4505
- Total staff (FTE)
- 638
- School counselors (FTE)
- 7.0About 742 students per counselor.
- School administrators (FTE)
- 12.0
Students per teacher compared
This district27.6
Arizona17.7
United States15.3
2020 finance data
From the F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2020, in nominal dollars. Enrollment used for per-pupil figures is the finance survey count (4,869), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $47.8 million
- Federal revenue
- $12.9 million
- State revenue
- $31.1 million
- Local revenue
- $3.8 million
- Total spending
- $46.8 million
- Spending per pupil
- $9,615
- Salaries
- $25.0 million53.5% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $6.5 million
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 26.9%
- State: 65.1%
- Local: 8.0%
Arizona overall
- Federal: 17.1%
- State: 46.5%
- Local: 36.3%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$9,615
Arizona$11,583
United States$16,826
Schools in Gadsden Elementary District (4505)
By level: 2 middle, 7 elementary, 1 prekindergarten. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Arizona Desert Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | K to 6 | 662 | 26.5 |
| Cesar Chavez Elementary | Elementary | K to 6 | 766 | 30.6 |
| Desert View Elementary | Elementary | K to 6 | 760 | 30.4 |
| Ed Pastor Elementary 4CEP school | Elementary | K to 6 | 646 | 28.1 |
| Gadsden Academy of Remote Learning | Elementary | K to 8 | 0 | |
| Gadsden Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 8 | 391 | 23.0 |
| Rio Colorado Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 6 | 523 | 24.9 |
| San Luis Middle School | Middle | 6 to 8 | 620 | 31.0 |
| San Luis Pre-School | Prekindergarten | PK | 176 | 58.7 |
| Southwest Junior High School | Middle | 7 to 8 | 652 | 22.5 |
Nearby and related
Other districts in Yuma County
- Yuma Union High School District (4507) 11,217 students
- Yuma Elementary District (4499) 9,102 students
- Crane Elementary District (4501) 5,727 students
- Somerton Elementary District (4500) 2,986 students
- Harvest Power Community Development Group Inc. (79501) 1,643 students
- Juniper Tree Academy (79064) 881 students
- Carpe Diem Collegiate High School (80001) 230 students
- Wellton Elementary District (4504) 209 students
- Antelope Union High School District (4506) 199 students
- Mohawk Valley Elementary District (4503) 156 students
- Yuma Private Industry Council Inc. (4509) 101 students
- Hyder Elementary District (4502) 88 students
- Yuma County Juvenile Justice Center (79524) 11 students
- Yuma County Sheriff's Office (79472) 9 students
- Southwest Technical Education District of Yuma (ST (92705) 8 students
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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Finance figures are 2020 finance data in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.