Desert Canyon Elementary
Scottsdale, AZ · Elementary School · Grades -1-5
Desert Canyon Elementary is a elementary school in Scottsdale, AZ with 496 students enrolled and a 65% proficiency rate. Part of Scottsdale Unified District (4240). NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Desert Canyon Elementary is a elementary school located in Scottsdale, Arizona. The school serves 496 students in grades -1-5. The student-to-teacher ratio is 14.6:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 65% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
7% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Desert Canyon Elementary is part of the Scottsdale Unified District (4240) in Arizona.
How This School Compares
Desert Canyon Elementary has 496 students enrolled, making it smaller than the average school in Scottsdale Unified District (4240) (706 students). Its 65% proficiency rate is 7 percentage points above the district average of 58%. Compared to the Arizona state average of 48%, the school performs 17 points higher. With a 14.6:1 student-teacher ratio, it offers smaller class sizes than the national average.
Frequently Asked Questions
Desert Canyon Elementary has 496 students enrolled in grades -1-5. The student-to-teacher ratio is 14.6:1.
According to EDFacts data, 65% of students at Desert Canyon Elementary meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Desert Canyon Elementary is part of the Scottsdale Unified District (4240) in Scottsdale, Arizona. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.