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Manzanita School

Public Grades K-5

56^th

SchoolDigger Rank ?

of 900 Arizona Elementary Schools

Better than 94% of Arizona elementary schools

Summary

Manzanita School is a K–5 school in Tucson with 579 students, in the highly ranked Catalina Foothills Unified District. The strongest overall finding is that students’ 2025–2026 math proficiency was 70%—well above district and state results and tied for the best reported score among nearby schools.

Manzanita’s results are strong in both tested subjects, with math its clearest advantage: 70% were proficient, compared with 61% in the district and 33% statewide. That result tied Ventana Vista Elementary School for the nearby lead. In ELA, 73% were proficient, versus 71% in the district and 41% statewide; this was second among nearby schools, behind Sunrise Drive Elementary School at 79%. Grade-level results show a contrast worth noting: fourth-grade ELA proficiency was 84%, while fifth-grade ELA was 63%. These are one-year ELA and math results, and nearby schools do not all serve the same grades.

Fifth-grade science is the clearest downward trend: proficiency declined from 76% in 2022–2023 to 63% in 2024–2025, though the latest score remained 29 points above the state’s 34%. It was 3 points below the district’s 66% that year. SchoolDigger gives Manzanita 5 stars and a 94th-percentile rating (rank 56 of 900), the highest among nearby schools with current rankings; the district is at the 90th percentile. Manzanita’s 2024–2025 student-teacher ratio was 17.2, higher than all eight nearby schools with reported ratios, which ranged from 10.0 to 16.2. Its reported free/reduced-lunch rate was 8% in 2022–2023, with no nearby figures available for comparison. SchoolDigger’s statewide effectiveness percentile for English Language Learner students was 64 in 2022–2023, compared with 93 overall, a notably lower relative standing for how well the school serves that group. Its percentile for Asian students fell from 91 in 2020–2021 to 63 in 2022–2023, while the overall percentile shifted from 95 to 93.

579

Students ?

17.2

Student/teacher ratio ?

$9,614

Per pupil spending ?

10.0%

Directly certified for free meals (2024-25) ?

98.6%

Kindergartners fully immunized against measles (MMR) (2025-26)

Exemptions: 0% (any vaccine)

3000 E Manzanita Ave
Tucson, AZ 85718-1224

(520) 209-7800

District: Catalina Foothills Unified District

Students who attend Manzanita School usually attend:

Middle:	Orange Grove Middle School
High:	Catalina Foothills High School

Racial breakdown:

White:

61.1%

Hispanic:

26.8%

Two or more races:

7.6%

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At a glance

▬ Ranking trend: Holding steady — 93rd percentile in 2016 → 94th in 2026

Strengths

✓Test scores above the Arizona average (71% vs 37% meeting standards)

✓Ranks in the top 6% of Arizona elementary schools

✓Among the top-ranked schools in Catalina Foothills Unified District

Worth a look

!Some student groups rank well below the school's overall statewide standing

Students meeting standards (2025-2026) ?

This school71%

District avg66%

Arizona avg37%

56^th of 900

Arizona public elementary schools ?

Top 6%▲ up 1 pts since 2016

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★★★★★

SchoolDigger rating ?

1^st of 4Elementary Schools in the Catalina Foothills Unified District

28^th of 267Catalina Foothills Unified District among Arizona districts

Statewide rank percentile over time (100 = the top-ranked school in the state; click a legend item to add a student group)

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All Students

Year	Avg score	Statewide rank	Arizona percentile	Rating
2026	91.9	56 of 900	93.8%	★★★★★
2025	89.4	75 of 909	91.7%	★★★★★
2024	85.6	121 of 912	86.7%	★★★★☆
2023	91.5	91 of 1245	92.7%	★★★★★
2022	84.4	110 of 1000	89.0%	★★★★☆
2021	94.1	57 of 1226	95.4%	★★★★★
2019	90.1	79 of 1039	92.4%	★★★★★
2018	92.2	75 of 1109	93.2%	★★★★★
2017	87.0	134 of 1106	87.9%	★★★★☆
2016	91.5	74 of 1079	93.1%	★★★★★
2015	89.3	79 of 955	91.7%	★★★★★
2014	92.4	35 of 1079	96.8%	★★★★★
2013	89.8	39 of 1158	96.6%	★★★★★
2012	89.3	37 of 1141	96.8%	★★★★★
2011	92.4	29 of 1075	97.3%	★★★★★
2010	93.3	23 of 1090	97.9%	★★★★★
2009	90.6	37 of 1062	96.5%	★★★★★

Asian

Year	Avg score	Statewide rank	Arizona percentile	Rating
2023	57.4	118 of 316	62.7%	★★★☆☆
2022	71.6	63 of 270	76.7%	★★★★☆
2021	79.6	54 of 620	91.3%	★★★★★

English Language Learner

Year	Avg score	Statewide rank	Arizona percentile	Rating
2023	52.3	164 of 451	63.6%	★★★☆☆

Female

Year	Avg score	Statewide rank	Arizona percentile	Rating
2026	86.8	47 of 579	91.9%	★★★★★
2025	86.6	48 of 589	91.9%	★★★★★
2024	77.2	102 of 602	83.1%	★★★★☆
2023	88.0	122 of 1219	90.0%	★★★★★
2022	78.4	128 of 824	84.5%	★★★★☆
2021	89.9	99 of 1219	91.9%	★★★★★
2019	85.2	87 of 862	89.9%	★★★★★
2018	89.3	89 of 1023	91.3%	★★★★★

Hispanic

Year	Avg score	Statewide rank	Arizona percentile	Rating
2026	82.2	68 of 500	86.4%	★★★★☆
2025	81.3	75 of 496	84.9%	★★★★☆
2024	79.7	80 of 486	83.5%	★★★★☆
2023	83.2	135 of 1170	88.5%	★★★★☆
2022	74.2	158 of 716	77.9%	★★★★☆
2021	91.2	54 of 1198	95.5%	★★★★★
2019	89.1	52 of 709	92.7%	★★★★★
2018	85.3	97 of 911	89.4%	★★★★☆

Low Socio Economic Status

Year	Avg score	Statewide rank	Arizona percentile	Rating
2023	71.2	215 of 1116	80.7%	★★★★☆
2018	63.8	241 of 820	70.6%	★★★★☆

Male

Year	Avg score	Statewide rank	Arizona percentile	Rating
2026	83.3	74 of 591	87.5%	★★★★☆
2025	75.6	116 of 626	81.5%	★★★★☆
2024	74.4	128 of 628	79.6%	★★★★☆
2023	92.5	68 of 1216	94.4%	★★★★★
2022	80.1	115 of 830	86.1%	★★★★☆
2021	94.7	41 of 1220	96.6%	★★★★★
2019	87.6	75 of 850	91.2%	★★★★★
2018	91.3	73 of 1032	92.9%	★★★★★

Military Connected

Year	Avg score	Statewide rank	Arizona percentile	Rating
2021	74.8	32 of 239	86.6%	★★★★☆

Multi-racial

Year	Avg score	Statewide rank	Arizona percentile	Rating
2023	78.8	66 of 617	89.3%	★★★★☆
2022	71.3	85 of 444	80.9%	★★★★☆
2021	83.9	55 of 1027	94.6%	★★★★★

Special Education

Year	Avg score	Statewide rank	Arizona percentile	Rating
2023	61.5	206 of 820	74.9%	★★★★☆
2021	70.9	147 of 1201	87.8%	★★★★☆

White

Year	Avg score	Statewide rank	Arizona percentile	Rating
2026	84.0	47 of 437	89.2%	★★★★☆
2025	82.8	42 of 465	91.0%	★★★★★
2024	74.7	93 of 486	80.9%	★★★★☆
2023	87.2	71 of 1024	93.1%	★★★★★
2022	74.2	140 of 800	82.5%	★★★★☆
2021	86.4	79 of 1161	93.2%	★★★★★
2019	78.7	86 of 595	85.5%	★★★★☆
2018	84.1	86 of 720	88.1%	★★★★☆

How student groups rank statewide ? (each group's percentile vs the same group at other schools — higher is better; the +/- beside each compares the group with this school's overall percentile)

Female (2026)92nd percentile~ school

Multi-racial (2023)89th percentile-3 vs school

White (2026)89th percentile-5 vs school

Male (2026)87th percentile-6 vs school

Military Connected (2021)87th percentile-9 vs school

Hispanic (2026)86th percentile-7 vs school

Low Socio Economic Status (2023)81st percentile-12 vs school

Special Education (2023)75th percentile-18 vs school

English Language Learner (2023)64th percentile-29 vs school

Asian (2023)63rd percentile-30 vs school

By subject vs Arizona (2025-2026) ?

English Language Arts73%+32 vs state

Mathematics70%+37 vs state

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What people are saying

by a parent
Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Dishonest, unprofessional, incompetent, and unethical school principal and psychologist at Manzanita. I have experienced their negligence first hand and have observed their retaliation towards parents initiating due process. They will be reported to state and feds as these clowns should not be receiving any federal funds. Kindergarten teacher allowed my son to be choked in the classroom, while 1st grade teacher was deceitful and lied on my child’s educational records. The worst administration and by far the worst level of leadership across this school I’ve ever witnessed in my entire experience working in any school system. They are unethical and have no issues with your child being choked in a classroom either ! They’ll never tell you but your own child will report it to you! Close Quote

by a parent
Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Our son has experienced borderline abusive, at best negligent, behavior from some of his past teachers in this school.

His first-grade teacher, for example, berated him regularly, made sarcastic, personal remarks to him frequently, and catastrophized minor behavioral incidents. She also displayed retaliatory behavior by not allowing him to go to the restroom in response to our complaints that he had been physically bullied when going to the restroom unattended. He wet his pants in class due to her not letting him use the restroom all day.

The larger concern is that administration is entirely non-responsive when complaints are filed. I have seen this sort of good-ol-boy, protect-our-own mentality run rampant before. I recognize it immediately as a problem at this school. They have a facade to uphold in order to protect their image above all else, regardless of the impact on the students and their well-being.

It is hit-and-miss at best with teachers. The administration, however, is out of touch and frighteningly unconcerned with valid, serious complaints against their staff. They are quick to deflect blame, and take zero accountability or ownership of what goes on in their school. Close Quote

by a parent
Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Having come from a background in education, I am deeply concerned with what I have seen in this school over the past few years. The administration is more concerned with upholding a certain image than they are improving the quality of their education and staff.

In the most recent example of administrative incompetence, the police were called on my 7-year-old without us being notified. He was interrogated until he was crying without us present. According to one of the school's administrators, they had been having problems over the past few days with him "pinching kids' butts" and rough-housing. We were not notified of this, although we were in consistent email communication with that administrator throughout this time period. Without notifying us, the decision was made to file an incident report and have an officer come to 'make an impression'. Now my 7-year-old son is on record with the Sherrif's department for the above.

This is an example of the Manzanita adminstration's idea of "parent-teacher partnership".

Not only was this traumatic, it was also retaliatory - The administration was retaliating, I believe, because over several days leading up to this I had been voicing my concerns regarding members of their staff, as well as administration's failure to handle situations appropriately.

Our child goofs off from time to time, like most little boys, but this school has succeeded in potentially criminalizing a 7-year-old for horseplay, as well is doing real damage to his self-image through the teachers' and administrations' belittling, neglect and failure to appropriately handle valid concerns with their policy, procedure, and staff. Close Quote

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2026)				Ranking (2025)				AASA English Language Arts (2026)							AASA Mathematics (2026)							Vaccination (2025-26)		Per Pupil Expenditures (2025)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Directly certified (2024-25)	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2026)	Statewide Rank (2026)	State Percentile (2026)	SchoolDigger Rating (2026)	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	Rank Change from Previous Year	AASA English Language Arts 3rd Grade	AASA English Language Arts 4th Grade	AASA English Language Arts 5th Grade	AASA English Language Arts 6th Grade	AASA English Language Arts 7th Grade	AASA English Language Arts 8th Grade	AASA English Language Arts All Grades	AASA Mathematics 3rd Grade	AASA Mathematics 4th Grade	AASA Mathematics 5th Grade	AASA Mathematics 6th Grade	AASA Mathematics 7th Grade	AASA Mathematics 8th Grade	AASA Mathematics All Grades	Vaccination: Kindergartners fully immunized against measles (MMR)	Vaccination: Exemption rate	Per Pupil Expenditures: Total	Personnel Spending from Federal Funds	Non-Personnel Spending from Federal Funds	Sub-total from Federal Funds	Personnel Spending from State and Local Funds	Non-Personnel from State and Local Funds	Sub-total Spending from State and Local Funds
Manzanita School	Public	K-5	3000 E Manzanita Ave	Tucson	85718	Pima County	Catalina Foothills Unified District	No	(n/a)	No	No	(520) 209-7800	579	34	17.2	10.0%	354 (61.1%)	5 (0.9%)	155 (26.8%)	20 (3.5%)	1 (0.2%)	0 (0.0%)	44 (7.6%)	91.9	56^th of 900 public elementary schools	93.8%		89.4	75^th of 909 public elementary schools	91.7%	19	74.0	84.0	63.0				73.0	64.0	76.0	70.0				70.0	98.6%	0%	$9,614	$159	$170	$329	$7,333	$1,952	$9,285
Sunrise Drive Elementary School	Public	K-5	5301 E Sunrise Dr	Tucson	85718	Pima County	Catalina Foothills Unified District	No	(n/a)	No	No	(520) 209-7900	469	31	15.2	15.4%	219 (46.7%)	1 (0.2%)	136 (29.0%)	62 (13.2%)	0 (0.0%)	4 (0.9%)	47 (10.0%)	91.8	60^th of 900 public elementary schools	93.3%		90.9	61^st of 909 public elementary schools	93.3%	1	81.0	71.0	83.0				79.0	61.0	70.0	71.0				68.0	98.6%	1.4%	$11,719	$583	$239	$821	$8,644	$2,254	$10,898
Rio Vista Elementary School	Public	PK, KG-5	1351 E Limberlost Dr	Tucson	85719	Pima County	Amphitheater Unified District	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(520) 696-5250	338	27	12.7	70.4%	65 (19.2%)	29 (8.6%)	217 (64.2%)	2 (0.6%)	7 (2.1%)	10 (3.0%)	8 (2.4%)	21.5	673^rd of 900 public elementary schools	25.2%		21.8	677^th of 909 public elementary schools	25.5%	4	29.0	38.0	28.0				32.0	27.0	26.0	32.0				29.0	96.1%	0%	$12,914	$1,119	$1,625	$2,744	$10,356		$10,171
Winifred Harelson Elementary School	Public	PK, KG-6	826 W Chapala Dr	Tucson	85704	Pima County	Amphitheater Unified District	No	(n/a)	No	No	(520) 696-6020	407	31	13.1	18.7%	245 (60.2%)	2 (0.5%)	125 (30.7%)	13 (3.2%)	1 (0.2%)	0 (0.0%)	21 (5.2%)	76.1	184^th of 900 public elementary schools	79.6%		80.4	152^nd of 909 public elementary schools	83.3%	32	51.0	64.0	57.0				57.0	51.0	66.0	60.0				59.0	93.3%	6.7%	$8,949	$611	$507	$1,117	$7,699	$133	$7,832
Khalsa School	Public, Charter	K-8	3701 E River Rd	Tucson	85718	Pima County	Khalsa Family Services	Yes	(n/a)	No	No	(520) 529-3611	238	16	14.8	—	146 (61.3%)	1 (0.4%)	63 (26.5%)	14 (5.9%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	14 (5.9%)	75.5	190^th of 900 public elementary schools	78.9%		81.1	148^th of 909 public elementary schools	83.7%	42	50.0	48.0	63.0	92.0		78.0	67.0						67.0	37.0			$38,749	$713		$713	$26,796	$11,240	$38,036
Frances Owen Holaway Elementary School	Public	PK, KG-5	3500 N Cherry Ave	Tucson	85719	Pima County	Amphitheater Unified District	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(520) 696-6880	241	24	10.0	65.1%	58 (24.1%)	13 (5.4%)	149 (61.8%)	4 (1.7%)	5 (2.1%)	0 (0.0%)	12 (5.0%)								(n/a)		45.0					24.0							24.0	97.3%	2.7%	$16,054	$795	$1,788	$2,583	$13,997		$13,470
Davidson Elementary School	Public	PK, KG-6	3950 E Paradise Falls Dr	Tucson	85712	Pima County	Tucson Unified District	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(520) 232-6800	270	27	10.1	73.7%	62 (23.0%)	29 (10.7%)	146 (54.1%)	7 (2.6%)	5 (1.9%)	4 (1.5%)	17 (6.3%)								(n/a)		45.0					21.0							17.0	85.4%	4.9%	$1,920	$321	$56	$377	$1,078	$465	$1,543
Ventana Vista Elementary School	Public	K-5	6085 N Kolb Rd	Tucson	85750	Pima County	Catalina Foothills Unified District	No	(n/a)	No	No	(520) 209-8000	411	25	16.2	10.2%	214 (52.1%)	1 (0.2%)	157 (38.2%)	10 (2.4%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	29 (7.1%)	91.1	68^th of 900 public elementary schools	92.4%		94.8	38^th of 909 public elementary schools	95.8%	30	74.0	81.0	63.0				72.0	74.0	75.0	61.0				70.0	98.5%	1.5%	$10,981	$258	$228	$486	$7,987	$2,508	$10,495
L M Prince School	Public	PK, KG-5	125 E Prince Rd	Tucson	85705	Pima County	Amphitheater Unified District	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(520) 696-6350	379	30	12.5	72.8%	48 (12.7%)	66 (17.4%)	220 (58.0%)	15 (4.0%)	13 (3.4%)	2 (0.5%)	15 (4.0%)	11.5	849^th of 900 public elementary schools	5.7%					(n/a)		21.0	23.0				20.0	19.0	26.0					18.0	94.4%	1.9%	$10,263	$804	$1,863	$2,666	$8,391		$7,597
Montessori Schoolhouse	Public, Charter	K-8	1301 E Fort Lowell Rd	Tucson	85719	Pima County	Montessori Schoolhouse of Tucson Inc.	Yes	(n/a)	No	No	(520) 319-8668	134			—	48 (35.8%)	2 (1.5%)	61 (45.5%)	1 (0.7%)	0 (0.0%)	2 (1.5%)	20 (14.9%)								(n/a)				86.0			72.0			80.0				58.0			$11,069	$00			$7,572	$3,498	$11,069

Frequently Asked Questions about Manzanita School

How many students attend Manzanita School?

In the 2024-25 school year, 579 students attended Manzanita School.

What district is Manzanita School in?

Catalina Foothills Unified District

What schools do graduates of Manzanita School attend?

Students who attend Manzanita School usually go on to attend:

Middle : Orange Grove Middle School
High : Catalina Foothills High School

What is the racial makeup of Manzanita School?

Students at Manzanita School are 61% White, 27% Hispanic, 8% Two or more races, 3% Asian.

Is Manzanita School a good school?

Yes. Manzanita School ranks in the top 6.2% of Arizona elementary schools.

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