BASIS Tucson Primary

BASIS Tucson Primary is an alternative school in Tucson, Arizona, serving 785 students in grades K–12. Its 2025–26 results show high proficiency in both English Language Arts (ELA) and math: 82% of students were proficient in ELA and 69% in math. The school’s standout finding is that it had the highest reported all-grades proficiency in both subjects among nearby schools with available scores.

Results are well above state levels and the nearby-school averages: BASIS scored 82% in ELA versus 41% statewide, and 69% in math versus 33%, advantages of 41 and 36 points. Its figures match those for BASIS Charter Schools Inc. in both subjects. Compared with the five nearby schools with reported scores in each subject, BASIS was 54 points above their average in ELA and 56 points above their average in math. ELA is its stronger subject against the state, while math has a slightly larger lead over nearby-school averages. Its results also exceed the available results for schools such as Presidio School; however, some nearby schools’ scores are unavailable, so they cannot be compared.

There is not enough information to tell whether results are improving or declining over time: scores cover only one school year. Within the school, grade 4 results were modestly higher than grade 3—ELA proficiency was 86% versus 79%, and math was 70% versus 67%—with both grades well above state benchmarks. The reported student–teacher ratio is 14.6, above the average of about 12 among nearby schools with reported ratios, and falls in the middle of that group. BASIS is also the second-largest nearby school by enrollment, behind Tucson Unified Virtual Academy. BASIS’s SchoolDigger rank and star rating, and local free/reduced-lunch rates, were not provided.