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Tucson, Arizona - 22 schools
An equity score of 43/100 ranks Sunnyside Unified District (4407) #158 of 437 districts in Arizona (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $9,713 per pupil, Sunnyside Unified District (4407) ranks #416 of 634 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending (Arizona districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
14,541
Total Enrollment
22
Schools
$9,713
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Sunnyside Unified District (4407) operates 22 public schools serving 14,541 students, placing it in the mid-size range in Arizona. The school portfolio breaks down into 11 elementary, 7 combined, 2 high, 2 middle schools, giving families a clear picture of grade-band coverage before they move, rent, or enrol. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Pima County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $9,713 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 634 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending. See how Arizona compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 18.6% local, 48.9% state, and 32.5% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 43/100, ranked #158 of 437 in Arizona against a state average of 38, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 2 of 22 schools offering Advanced Placement (15 AP courses district-wide), a 422.5:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 73.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 88.5% Hispanic or Latino, 3.4% White, 2.8% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Santa Clara Elementary School, with a diversity index of 43.2/100.
Its largest campus is Sunnyside High School, enrolling 2,258 students (16% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Sunnyside Online Success Academy, at 107 students, a 21x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Sunnyside High School accounts for 15.5% of all Sunnyside Unified District (4407) student enrollment
That concentration means Sunnyside Unified District (4407)-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Sunnyside Unified District (4407) school enrollment varies 21× across entities
Sunnyside Unified District (4407) school enrollment ranges from 107 students (lowest) to 2,258 students (highest), a spread of 2,151 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Sunnyside Unified District (4407) has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 70.7% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Eligibility here is approaching the 75% concentration-grant threshold; it does not yet unlock the extra funding tier but sits meaningfully above the baseline 50% majority mark. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Sunnyside Unified District (4407) student-counselor ratio is 423:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Sunnyside Unified District (4407) chronic absenteeism rate is 73.5% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Comparisons are relative to Sunnyside Unified District (4407)'s own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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