[4] It is named after poet Paul Laurence Dunbar.

[2] The school's construction was funded with monies from a $650,000 bond issue that passed in 1924.

[4] Now, the school, like all schools in the United States following the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling, is operated as an integrated institution.

[citation needed] The school was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1993,[4] and was added to the City of Phoenix's Historic Property Register in 2005.

[8] In the 2014–2015 school year, the school had a student population of 304, with an overwhelming majority of the students either classified as "Hispanics"[9] or African Americans.