Our Schools

1,400 acres of campus, playgrounds and athletic
fields

7,272,000 square feet
of space in our school
and district buildings

• 58 elementary schools
• 13 junior high schools
• 7 high schools
• 9 focus schools

       Total 87 schools
Our students speak 51 different languages

• That is about the size of almost four Disneyland areas, including the California Adventure
• It is as big as 1,100 football fields
• If it was all on the same place, it would take up two square miles

• That's 73 million square feet
• If your house is 1,600 square feet, our district takes care of the equivalent of 4,607 houses
• If your house is 2,000 square feet, our district takes care of the equivalent of 3,680 houses

Transportation

• 471 buses
• School buses and vans travel 31,000 miles per day
  • Equal to 23 trips to the moon each year
  • Or driving the between Los Angeles and New York 10 times every day
• We transport 20,000 students per day
• There are 735 transportation and vehicle maintenance staff members
  • 500 certified drivers
  • 235 bus monitor, dispatchers, maintenance staff
• Our buses use 1 million gallons of diesel fuel each year
• 286 buses are air-conditioned, 185 more busses will be replaced with air-conditioning over the next several years
• Maintenance and repair in a year
  • 1,264 oil changes
  • Processes 13,420 repairs

• 8 million lunches are served during a school year
  • 44,587 lunches every day - that's almost enough to feed lunch to every man, woman and child in Flagstaff.
• In one day, the district uses:
  • 49,000 cartons of milk - if laid end-to-end, that is more than a mile of milk cartons
  • 20,000 cartons of juice
  • 450 cases of French toast (for Brunch for Lunch)
  • 350 cases of chicken
  • 450 cases of corn dogs
  • 300 cases of pizza
  • 240 loaves of whole grain bread
  • 10,000 pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables

Mesa Public Schools is among the largest employers in Arizona - the 19th largest.

• 10,353 employees total
• 4,600 teachers, counselors and nurses
• That is more than all the employees at The Boeing Company in Mesa
• 5,700 support staff like secretaries, bus drivers, food service workers, plumbers and groundskeepers

State
Championships

Mesa Public Schools students earn state championships and awards in almost every area.

• Music, art, drama and debate
• FFA and Skills USA - welding, computers
• Sports - baseball, softball, basketball, football, swimming, diving, golf, wrestling and track and field.
• Academics like We the People and Academic Decathlon