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Nogales Unified District (4457), AZ: schools, enrollment and spending
Nogales Unified District (4457) runs 11 public schools with 5,696 students in grades PK to 12. Its ratio of 20.9 students per teacher is 3.2 higher than the Arizona figure of 17.7.
At a glance
- Schools
- 11
- Students
- 5,696
- Teachers (FTE)
- 273
- Students per teacher
- 20.9
- AZ: 17.7 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 310 W Plum St, Nogales, AZ 85621
- Phone
- (520)287-0800
- County
- Santa Cruz County
- Locale
- Town: Remote
- Grades offered
- PK to 12
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 0405530
- State district ID
- AZ-4457
- Total staff (FTE)
- 544
- School counselors (FTE)
- 14.0About 407 students per counselor.
- School administrators (FTE)
- 14.0
Students per teacher compared
This district20.9
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 (5,505), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $52.5 million
- Federal revenue
- $11.6 million
- State revenue
- $31.8 million
- Local revenue
- $9.2 million
- Total spending
- $53.5 million
- Spending per pupil
- $9,712
- Salaries
- $27.9 million52.2% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $0
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 22.0%
- State: 60.5%
- Local: 17.5%
Arizona overall
- Federal: 17.1%
- State: 46.5%
- Local: 36.3%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$9,712
Arizona$11,583
United States$16,826
Schools in Nogales Unified District (4457)
By level: 2 high, 2 middle, 6 elementary, 1 other. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| A J Mitchell Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | K to 5 | 301 | 16.7 |
| Challenger Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | K to 5 | 380 | 15.8 |
| Desert Shadows Middle SchoolCEP school | Middle | 6 to 8 | 784 | 23.1 |
| Francisco Vasquez De Coronado Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | K to 5 | 508 | 19.5 |
| Lincoln Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 421 | 17.5 |
| Mary L Welty Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | K to 5 | 381 | 20.1 |
| Nogales High SchoolCEP school | High | 9 to 12 | 1,774 | 23.7 |
| NUSD Online | Other | K to 12 | 209 | 52.2 |
| Pierson High SchoolCEP school | High | 9 to 12 | 119 | 14.9 |
| Robert Bracker ElementaryCEP school | Elementary | K to 5 | 272 | 17.0 |
| Wade Carpenter Middle SchoolCEP school | Middle | 6 to 8 | 547 | 21.9 |
Nearby and related
Other districts in Santa Cruz County
- Santa Cruz Valley Unified District (4458) 3,612 students
- Mexicayotl Academy Inc. (4463) 209 students
- Santa Cruz Elementary District (4459) 131 students
- Patagonia Elementary District (4460) 124 students
- Sonoita Elementary District (4461) 118 students
- Santa Cruz Valley Opportunities in Education Inc. (79066) 81 students
- Patagonia Union High School District (4462) 71 students
- Pinnacle Education-Kino Inc. (81009) 52 students
- Patagonia Montessori Elementary School (79069) 33 students
- Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office (79473) 10 students
- Santa Cruz County Regional School District (85848)
- Santa Cruz County School Superintendent
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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.