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Santa Cruz Valley Unified District (4458), AZ: schools, enrollment and spending
Santa Cruz Valley Unified District (4458) runs 5 public schools with 3,612 students in grades PK to 12. Its ratio of 22.6 students per teacher is 4.9 higher than the Arizona figure of 17.7.
At a glance
- Schools
- 5
- Students
- 3,612
- Teachers (FTE)
- 160
- Students per teacher
- 22.6
- AZ: 17.7 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 1374 W Frontage Rd, Rio Rico, AZ 85648
- Phone
- (520)281-8282
- County
- Santa Cruz County
- Locale
- Rural: Distant
- Grades offered
- PK to 12
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 0407520
- State district ID
- AZ-4458
- Total staff (FTE)
- 414
- School counselors (FTE)
- 8.0About 452 students per counselor.
- School administrators (FTE)
- 10.0
Students per teacher compared
This district22.6
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 (3,438), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $35.4 million
- Federal revenue
- $6.3 million
- State revenue
- $19.1 million
- Local revenue
- $10.0 million
- Total spending
- $38.2 million
- Spending per pupil
- $11,120
- Salaries
- $16.3 million42.7% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $15.4 million
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 17.8%
- State: 53.9%
- Local: 28.4%
Arizona overall
- Federal: 17.1%
- State: 46.5%
- Local: 36.3%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$11,120
Arizona$11,583
United States$16,826
Schools in Santa Cruz Valley Unified District (4458)
By level: 1 high, 1 middle, 3 elementary. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Calabasas SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 8 | 917 | 22.4 |
| Coatimundi Middle SchoolCEP school | Middle | 6 to 8 | 497 | 23.7 |
| Mountain View SchoolCEP school | Elementary | K to 5 | 406 | 19.3 |
| Rio Rico High SchoolCEP school | High | 9 to 12 | 1,397 | 24.9 |
| San Cayetano Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | K to 5 | 395 | 20.8 |
Nearby and related
Other districts in Santa Cruz County
- Nogales Unified District (4457) 5,696 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.