About Saddle Mountain Unified School District
Saddle Mountain Unified School District is a public school system serving Maricopa County, Arizona, based in Tonopah. It serves 3,265 students across 6 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a rural: distant district. By enrollment it is the #70 largest of Arizona’s 659 school systems.
Size and structure
Saddle Mountain Unified School District enrolls 3,265 students in 6 schools — an average of about 544 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #70 of 659 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Saddle Mountain Unified School District, from the NCES Common Core of Data (3,265 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
Saddle Mountain Unified School District employs about 152 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 21.4:1 — above the Arizona average of about 17.8:1. Total district staff is roughly 393.
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 Saddle Mountain Unified School 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 Saddle Mountain Unified School 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 Saddle Mountain Unified School District in the free Cognia registry.
Saddle Mountain Unified School District vs. Arizona
See every Arizona district side by side in the Arizona directory.
Look up Saddle Mountain Unified School 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):