Harold Steele Elementary School

Public PK, KG-5

 700 S Sarnoff Dr
       Tucson, AZ  85710-4248


(520) 731-6800

District: Tucson Unified District

SchoolDigger Rank:
1107th of 1,245 Arizona Elementary Schools


Students who attend Harold Steele Elementary School usually attend:

Middle:    Gridley Middle School
High:    Catalina Online Learning Experience
    Sahuaro High School
    University High School

Student/teacher ratio:  12.6 Help
Number of students:  251

Racial breakdown:

Hispanic:
42.6%
White:
28.3%
African American:
18.7%
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Free/discounted lunch recipients:  71.7% Help


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Compare Details Harold Steele Elementary School ranks worse than 88.9% of elementary schools in Arizona. It also ranks 47th among 60 ranked elementary schools in the Tucson Unified District. (See more...)
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Compare Details In 2023 the calculated Average Standard Score was 15.08. (See more...)
Student Body
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Compare Details Student population at Harold Steele Elementary School is diverse. Racial makeup is: Hispanic (42.6%), White (28.3%), African American (18.7%). (See more...)
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Compare Details 71.7% of students are receiving a free or discounted lunch. (See more...)
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Compare Details The student/teacher ratio at Harold Steele Elementary School is 12.6, which is the 25th best among 60 elementary schools in the Tucson Unified District. (See more...)
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Schooldigger 2023 Rankings:

Harold Steele Elementary School:

SchoolDigger ranks Harold Steele Elementary School 1107th of 1245 Arizona public elementary schools. (See Harold Steele Elementary School in the ranking list.)

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Tucson Unified District:

SchoolDigger ranks Tucson Unified District 373rd of 540 Arizona school districts. (See district ranking list.)


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Rank History for Harold Steele Elementary School

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Rank History for all students at Harold Steele Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools AZ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2009 45.28 598th 1062 43.7%
2010 45.40 589th 1090 46.0%
2011 30.18 790th 1075 26.5%
2012 45.18 664th 1141 41.8%
2013 38.20 767th 1158 33.8%
2014 24.47 860th 1079 20.3%
2015 14.91 855th 955 10.5%
2016 25.44 806th 1079 25.3%
2017 23.44 843rd 1106 23.8%
2018 22.37 863rd 1109 22.2%
2019 13.13 942nd 1039 9.3%
2021 20.77 975th 1226 20.5%
2023 15.08 1107th 1245 11.1%
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Rank History for Multi-racial students at Harold Steele Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools AZ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2021 14.04 995th 1027 3.1%
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Rank History for English Language Learner students at Harold Steele Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools AZ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2021 38.86 826th 975 15.3%
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Rank History for Special Education students at Harold Steele Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools AZ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2021 32.90 822nd 1201 31.6%
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Rank History for Low Socio Economic Status students at Harold Steele Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools AZ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2023 20.35 968th 1116 13.3%
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Rank History for Homeless students at Harold Steele Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools AZ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2021 45.03 171st 423 59.6%
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Rank History for Female students at Harold Steele Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools AZ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 25.20 777th 1023 24.0%
2021 24.04 933rd 1219 23.5%
2023 13.16 1145th 1219 6.1%
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Rank History for Male students at Harold Steele Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools AZ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 22.54 816th 1032 20.9%
2021 19.04 1042nd 1220 14.6%
2023 17.95 1039th 1216 14.6%
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Rank History for Asian students at Harold Steele Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools AZ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2021 26.95 521st 620 16.0%
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Rank History for African American students at Harold Steele Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools AZ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2021 48.19 349th 895 61.0%
2023 29.80 462nd 607 23.9%
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Rank History for Hispanic students at Harold Steele Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools AZ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 33.41 612th 911 32.8%
2021 13.36 1177th 1198 1.8%
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Rank History for White students at Harold Steele Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools AZ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 13.52 663rd 720 7.9%
2021 36.19 779th 1161 32.9%
2022 1.07 799th 800 0.1%
2023 14.63 948th 1024 7.4%
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Data source: test scores: Arizona Department of Education, rankings: SchoolDigger.com

As you review the school rankings data, please be aware that some of the information from certain demographics is missing. The reason for this omission is that the data has been redacted from the source data itself due to low population samples in these specific demographic groups.

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by a parent
Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Open Quote My child has been attending this school for 2 years now she is a special needs student when I enrolled her in school to get her the help she needed to test into kindergarten after 2 years she has made little to no progress she still hasent tested into kindergarten her teacher is extremely lazy she sends home other students work home with my daughter an wrights my daughters name on the paper I work with my daughter weekly I know what her had wrighting looks like an none of the papers sent home were hers when I confronted the teacher about it she said "she didnt want to send my child home with nothing cuz it's hard to get her to do assignments sometimes" I replied in not such a nice way an asked her "so you would much rather take away work from other students to give me the false impression that my child achieving more in the class room than what she actually is" when I asked her that she just stared at me like I was in the wrong for confronting her I was so up set I cried a couple days later I opened my daughters back pack to clean out her lunch box there was a form in there from pitcher day which was in the beginning of September an it is now the middle of November my daughters pitcher was terrable so I wanted to reschedule for her to take another pitcher when I took the form to the front office to reschedule they informed me that pitcher retake was the last week of September now it all reality it wasent a big deal bit it just shows this teachers lack or responsibility an her great level of laziness it has been one issue after another with this school I requested a meeting with the principal on several occasions an the teacher which has yet to happen almost 3 month later I have been looking forward to experiencing school days with my daughter since the day she was born an this school completely ruined this experience for us if I had the option to home school I deffently would but with my dad getting ready for a lung transplant an with my mother in law needing care for her Parkinson's disease that leaves very little time to give my child the help she needs an deserves I came to tusd for help with my daughter that needs the help I am not able to provide an honestly this school is unbelievable I hate walking in there every day to get nothing but dirty looks from the staff members I feel completely unwelcome at my child's school an extremely judged I'm not looking forward to the future with this school an it has gotten to the point that my family an I will be moveing to insure our children wont attend TUSD this next year in 2019 or any year after that if I could give a 0 star I deffently would deffently do your research before enrolling your child at Steel Elementary it is a 2 star school an it deffently shows between that an the fact that this school an its students are performing at a below average level for arizona state requirements I'm curious as to why tusd allows schools with below average scores with below average improvements is allowed to continue to teach students at "a below average level" Sorry Not Sorry ... but these "Below Average Teachers teaching at a below level all want rases???? 🤣 Close Quote



Enrollment information for Harold Steele Elementary School

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Year White African American Asian Hispanic American Indian Pacific Islander Two or More Races Not Specified Total
1988 502 15 8 66 8 n/a n/a -41 558
1989 524 11 10 68 4 n/a n/a -74 543
1990 475 20 6 70 1 n/a n/a -32 540
1991 474 22 8 65 2 n/a n/a -21 550
1992 431 23 11 54 1 n/a n/a -1 519
1993 410 40 6 69 0 n/a n/a 0 525
1994 408 43 6 74 0 n/a n/a 0 531
1995 380 41 9 77 3 n/a n/a 0 510
1996 380 41 9 77 3 n/a n/a 0 510
1997 337 43 12 76 6 n/a n/a 0 474
1998 331 42 13 90 4 n/a n/a 0 480
1999 306 42 9 88 5 n/a n/a 0 450
2000 289 33 8 87 9 n/a n/a 0 426
2001 267 38 6 97 6 n/a n/a 0 414
2002 253 39 12 100 10 n/a n/a 0 414
2003 253 39 12 100 10 n/a n/a 0 414
2004 283 39 8 111 10 n/a n/a 0 451
2005 262 31 13 123 7 n/a n/a 0 436
2006 223 26 10 122 7 n/a n/a 0 388
2007 215 47 10 127 8 n/a n/a 0 407
2008 201 46 10 118 8 n/a n/a 0 383
2009 191 43 11 114 3 n/a n/a 0 362
2010 189 48 12 105 6 n/a n/a 0 360
2011 158 28 7 137 10 5 15 0 360
2012 141 23 3 159 9 5 15 0 355
2013 142 36 4 144 4 3 18 0 351
2014 127 27 6 149 2 6 27 0 344
2015 121 22 7 139 3 6 24 0 322
2016 108 35 7 145 2 2 17 0 316
2017 120 41 4 155 1 3 13 0 337
2018 105 31 4 155 5 3 9 0 312
2019 101 30 6 154 3 0 15 0 309
2020 116 37 6 145 4 0 21 0 329
2021 78 34 4 107 3 2 16 0 244
2022 70 44 2 98 3 2 20 0 239
2023 71 47 3 107 3 1 19 0 251

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Enrollment/Ethnicity

For more information about how the Department of Education defines ethnicity, see Defining Race and Ethnicity Data, National Center for Education Statistics

Students eligible for free or discounted lunch at Harold Steele Elementary School

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
1988 558 20.5 27.2 n/a
1989 543 18.5 29.3 n/a
1990 540 20.5 26.3 n/a
1991 550 21.5 25.5 n/a
1992 519 22.0 23.5 n/a
1993 525 19.5 26.9 n/a
1994 531 19.5 27.2 n/a
1995 510 21.0 24.3 n/a
1996 510 21.0 24.3 n/a
1997 474 21.8 21.7 n/a
1998 480 21.0 22.9 n/a
1999 450 23.0 19.6 n/a
2000 426 22.0 19.4 n/a
2001 414 22.0 18.8 n/a
2002 414 21.0 19.7 n/a
2003 414 21.0 19.7 n/a
2004 451 21.5 21.0 68.3
2005 436 22.0 19.8 67.7
2006 388 20.0 19.4 63.1
2007 407 24.0 17.0 30.7
2008 383 23.6 16.2 0.8
2009 362 20.6 17.6 52.8
2010 360 20.0 18.0 61.7
2011 360 20.0 18.0 56.4
2012 355 21.0 16.9 68.5
2013 351 23.6 14.8 77.2
2014 344 21.6 15.9 80.5
2015 322 20.0 16.1 74.8
2016 316 21.0 15.0 n/a
2017 337 21.0 16.0 80.4
2018 312 17.0 18.3 71.8
2019 309 18.5 16.6 67.6
2020 329 18.7 17.5 71.7
2021 244 18.5 13.1 n/a
2022 239 19.9 12.0 71.5
2023 251 19.8 12.6 71.7

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Students eligible for discounted/free lunch:

The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) provides low-cost or free meals to students in U.S. public and nonprofit private schools based on household income. Those with incomes below 130% of the poverty line receive free lunch, while those between 130% and 185% qualify for reduced-price lunch. The percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch serves as a marker for poverty, as it reflects the socioeconomic status of families in a given school or district. A higher FRPL rate typically indicates a higher concentration of low-income families, suggesting that the school or district may face additional challenges in providing adequate resources and support for student success.

Student/Teacher Ratio Harold Steele Elementary School

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
1988 558 20.5 27.2 n/a
1989 543 18.5 29.3 n/a
1990 540 20.5 26.3 n/a
1991 550 21.5 25.5 n/a
1992 519 22.0 23.5 n/a
1993 525 19.5 26.9 n/a
1994 531 19.5 27.2 n/a
1995 510 21.0 24.3 n/a
1996 510 21.0 24.3 n/a
1997 474 21.8 21.7 n/a
1998 480 21.0 22.9 n/a
1999 450 23.0 19.6 n/a
2000 426 22.0 19.4 n/a
2001 414 22.0 18.8 n/a
2002 414 21.0 19.7 n/a
2003 414 21.0 19.7 n/a
2004 451 21.5 21.0 68.3
2005 436 22.0 19.8 67.7
2006 388 20.0 19.4 63.1
2007 407 24.0 17.0 30.7
2008 383 23.6 16.2 0.8
2009 362 20.6 17.6 52.8
2010 360 20.0 18.0 61.7
2011 360 20.0 18.0 56.4
2012 355 21.0 16.9 68.5
2013 351 23.6 14.8 77.2
2014 344 21.6 15.9 80.5
2015 322 20.0 16.1 74.8
2016 316 21.0 15.0 n/a
2017 337 21.0 16.0 80.4
2018 312 17.0 18.3 71.8
2019 309 18.5 16.6 67.6
2020 329 18.7 17.5 71.7
2021 244 18.5 13.1 n/a
2022 239 19.9 12.0 71.5
2023 251 19.8 12.6 71.7

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Student-Teacher Ratio

Student/teacher ratio is calculated by dividing the total number of students by the total number of full-time equivalent teachers. Please note that a smaller student/teacher ratio does not necessarily translate to smaller class size. In some instances, schools hire teachers part time, and some teachers are hired for specialized instruction with very small class sizes. These and other factors contribute to the student/teacher ratio. Note: For private schools, Student/teacher ratio may not include Pre-Kindergarten.
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Per Pupil Expenditures for Harold Steele Elementary School

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YearPersonnel Expenditures from Federal FundsNon-Personnel Expenditures from Federal FundsTotal Expenditures from Federal FundsPersonnel Expenditures from State and Local FundsNon-Personnel Expenditures from State and Local FundsTotal Expenditures from State and Local FundsTotal Expenditures Per Pupil (All Funds)
2019 $1,321 (11.0%) $243 (2.0%) $2,885 (24.1%) $9,224 (77.1%) $1,177 (9.8%) $10,401 (86.9%) $11,966
2020 $1,071 (12.5%) $108 (1.3%) $2,251 (26.4%) $6,695 (78.4%) $662 (7.8%) $7,356 (86.2%) $8,536

Data source: Arizona Department of Education
Pre and Post Pandemic Data

Impact of COVID-19 on Harold Steele Elementary School

The coronavirus has had a profound impact on education in America. Learning shifted online overnight, attendance numbers dwindled, and enrollment decreased. SchoolDigger.com is making it easier for you to better assess how COVID-19 has impacted your school. Through the collection of pre-pandemic (2019) and current data, SchoolDigger.com is sharing test scores, enrollment numbers and school demographics from schools across the country – and we make it easy to see how impacted schools compare locally and statewide.

Rankings

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Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
Rank
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
Ranks 942nd of 1039 Elementary schoolsRanks 1107th of 1245 Elementary schools
 1.7%

Student Body

Number of students
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
Number of students
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
Total Students309251
 18.8%
African American3047
 56.7%
American Indian33
Asian63
 50%
Hispanic154107
 30.5%
Pacific Islander01
White10171
 29.7%
Two or More Races1519
 26.7%
% Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients67.6%71.7%
 4.1%


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Harold Steele Elementary School ranks in the bottom 11.1% of Arizona elementary schools.

Students at Harold Steele Elementary School are 43% Hispanic, 28% White, 19% African American, 8% Two or more races, 1% Asian, 1% American Indian.

In the 2022-23 school year, 251 students attended Harold Steele Elementary School.


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