About Paradise Valley Unified District
Paradise Valley Unified District is a public school system serving Maricopa County, Arizona, based in Phoenix. It serves 26,183 students across 45 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a city: large district. By enrollment it is the #7 largest of Arizona’s 659 school systems.
Size and structure
Paradise Valley Unified District enrolls 26,183 students in 45 schools — an average of about 582 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #7 of 659 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Paradise Valley Unified District, from the NCES Common Core of Data (26,183 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Paradise Valley Unified District employs about 1,668 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 15.7:1 — below the Arizona average of about 17.8:1, meaning comparatively smaller classes. Total district staff is roughly 3,199.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How Arizona funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Paradise Valley Unified District are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
Arizona grades every school and district A–F under the state’s A–F Letter Grades system (A.R.S. §15-241), built from proficiency and year-over-year growth in English language arts, math and science, English-learner progress, graduation rate and college-and-career readiness. Read Paradise Valley Unified District’s current grade and school results at the Arizona School Report Cards.
Accreditation status
Arizona does not require public-school districts to hold third-party accreditation; districts that pursue it most often use Cognia (formerly AdvancED/NCA). Look up Paradise Valley Unified District in the free Cognia registry.
Paradise Valley Unified District vs. Arizona
See every Arizona district side by side in the Arizona directory.
Look up Paradise Valley Unified District’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):