Middle · Arizona
Willie & Coy Payne Jr. High
Willie & Coy Payne Jr. High, a public middle school in Queen Creek, Arizona: grades 7–8, 1,171 students, 19.9 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Chandler Unified District #80 (4242).
Size and class size
Compared with middle 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
- 1,171
- Teachers (FTE)
- 58.8
- Students per teacher
- 19.9
- Grades
- 7–8
- Middle
More students per teacher than 69% of middle schools in Arizona
Median 18.1 · 208 schools compared
More students per teacher than 87% of middle schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared
Larger than 100% of middle schools in Arizona
Median 496 · 216 schools compared
Larger than 96% of middle schools in the US
Median 524 · 16,046 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Middle · Grades 7–8
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Area
- Large city
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Chandler Unified District #80 (4242).
Location
- Address
- 7655 S Higley Rd, Queen Creek, AZ 85142
- Phone
- (480)224-2400
- City or town
- Gilbert
- County
- Maricopa County
Nearby middle schools
The closest public middle schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5–8 | 129 | 9.9 | |
| 7–8 | 1,094 | 19.9 | |
| 7–8 | 1,085 | 19.2 | |
| 5–8 | 657 | 19.7 | |
| 5–8 | 328 | 9.9 | |
| 7–8 | 875 | 20.4 |
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).
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