About Sanders Unified District
Sanders Unified District is a public school system serving Apache County, Arizona, based in Sanders. It serves 624 students across 4 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a rural: remote district. By enrollment it is the #224 largest of Arizona’s 659 school systems.
Size and structure
Sanders Unified District enrolls 624 students in 4 schools — an average of about 156 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #224 of 659 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Sanders Unified District, from the NCES Common Core of Data (624 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
Sanders Unified District employs about 49 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 12.7:1 — below the Arizona average of about 17.8:1, meaning comparatively smaller classes. Total district staff is roughly 121.
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 Sanders 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 Sanders 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 Sanders Unified District in the free Cognia registry.
Sanders Unified District vs. Arizona
See every Arizona district side by side in the Arizona directory.
Look up Sanders 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):