Best Public Schools in Zip Code 85715

Zip code 85715 has six elementary schools: four serve K–8, Bloom Elementary serves PK–6, and Academy of Tucson Elementary School serves K–5. Enrollment ranges from 140 to 944, with 2,827 students total and an average of 471 per school. The most important finding is the wide performance gap: the strongest and weakest schools differ by 47 percentage points in both all-grades ELA and math.

Leman Academy of Excellence-Oro Valley Arizona leads with 62% proficient in ELA and 57% in math; Academy of Tucson Elementary School is also strong at 59% and 52%. At the other end, La Paloma Academy-South has the lowest results, at 15% in ELA and 10% in math—47 points below Oro Valley in each subject. Across the six schools, average results are 43% in ELA and 35% in math, just 2 points above state figures of 41% and 33%. Grade-level science results offer another distinction: in fifth grade, Academy of Tucson scored 43% and Oro Valley 39%, compared with 34% statewide; in eighth grade, Oro Valley scored 40%, versus 30% statewide.

SchoolDigger’s rankings show different trajectories rather than a shared trend: Academy of Tucson’s statewide percentile rose from 82 in 2023–24 to 84 in 2025–26, and it received four stars in 2025–26; Oro Valley moved from 81 to 80, while Leman Academy of Excellence-Sierra Vista rose from 61 to 64. Class-size figures do not tell the whole story: La Paloma has the highest student-teacher ratio, 29.4, while Bloom Elementary has a ratio of 10.3 but scores 25% in both subjects; Academy of Tucson Elementary School has the lowest ratio, 9.3. Schools have different grade spans and enrollments, so comparisons may not be equally direct.