High · Arizona
Cactus Shadows High School
Cactus Shadows High School, a public high school in Scottsdale, Arizona: grades 8–12, 1,362 students, 20.9 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Cave Creek Unified District (4244).
Size and class size
Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 1,362
- Teachers (FTE)
- 65.2
- Students per teacher
- 20.9
- Grades
- 8–12
- High
More students per teacher than 69% of high schools in Arizona
Median 17.9 · 471 schools compared
More students per teacher than 85% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 80% of high schools in Arizona
Median 240 · 558 schools compared
Larger than 82% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
State test results
No state test results published for this school: state tests cover grades 3–8, and small groups are not published.
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 8–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Area
- Midsize city
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Cave Creek Unified District (4244).
Location
- Address
- 5802 E. Dove Valley Rd., Scottsdale, AZ 85266
- Phone
- (480)575-2400
- City or town
- Scottsdale
- County
- Maricopa County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
EVIT Cactus Shadows High SchoolCareer and technical | 10–12 | 7 | — |
West-MEC - Pinnacle High SchoolCareer and technical | 9–12 | 0 | — |
| 7–12 | 2,430 | 23.9 | |
AAEC - Paradise ValleyCharter | 9–12 | 269 | 20.7 |
West-MEC Paradise Valley Community CollegeCareer and technical | 10–12 | 1 | — |
Hope High School OnlineCharterAlternativeFully virtual | 9–12 | 391 | 33.3 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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