📍 901 e Calle Mayer, Nogales, Santa Cruz County, 85621
Challenger Elementary School is a State/Public serving elementary age pupils, located in Nogales, Santa Cruz County. The school has 374 pupils enrolled. It is part of the Nogales Unified District (4457) school district. It serves grades K–5 in a small-town setting. The school employs 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, a student-teacher ratio of 14.4:1.
Challenger Elementary School enrolls 374 students across grades K–5. The student body is 52% male and 48% female. A teaching staff of 26 full-time-equivalent teachers supports the school, giving a student-teacher ratio of 14.4:1.
By race and ethnicity, the student body is 99% Hispanic or Latino, <1% White and <1% Asian.
| Race / ethnicity | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Hispanic or Latino | 370 | 99% |
| White | 2 | <1% |
| Asian | 2 | <1% |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data.
317 of the school's 374 students (85%) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility is a widely used indicator of the share of students from lower-income households.
Challenger Elementary School is located in a small-town setting (NCES locale: Town, Remote). The school runs a schoolwide Title I program, which provides federal funding to support students from low-income families. For civic and policy purposes, the school sits in congressional district OK-70.
Challenger Elementary School is one of 11 schools in Nogales Unified District (4457), based in NOGALES, Arizona. The district serves 5,696 students district-wide and employs 270 full-time-equivalent teachers. With 374 students, Challenger Elementary School is smaller than the district average of about 518 students per school.
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