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Tucson, Arizona - 4 schools
An equity score of 26/100 ranks Tanque Verde Unified District (4408) #289 of 437 districts in Arizona (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $9,354 per pupil, Tanque Verde Unified District (4408) ranks #468 of 634 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending (Arizona districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
2,245
Total Enrollment
4
Schools
$9,354
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Tanque Verde Unified District (4408) operates 4 public schools serving 2,245 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Arizona. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 combined, 1 high, 1 middle schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. 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 $9,354 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 47.3% local, 46.8% state, and 6.0% 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 26/100, ranked #289 of 437 in Arizona against a state average of 38, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 4 schools offering Advanced Placement (13 AP courses district-wide), a 715.6:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 39.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 71.0% White, 22.2% Hispanic or Latino, 0.9% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Tanque Verde High School, with a diversity index of 46.0/100.
Its largest campus is Tanque Verde High School, enrolling 761 students (34% of the district's total enrollment).
Tanque Verde High School accounts for 33.9% of all Tanque Verde Unified District (4408) student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Tanque Verde Unified District (4408)-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.
Tanque Verde Unified District (4408) student-counselor ratio is 716:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 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.
Tanque Verde Unified District (4408) chronic absenteeism rate is 39.5% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Comparisons are relative to Tanque Verde Unified District (4408)'s own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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