Summary:
ZIP code 85735 has one listed school, Laura N. Banks Elementary, serving prekindergarten through grade 6, with 345 students, in Tucson Unified District. The clearest concern for families is that the school’s latest all-grades results were below statewide results in both core subjects: in 2025–26, 30% met the ELA standard versus 41% statewide, and 22% met the math standard versus 33% statewide. That is an 11-point gap in each subject, although the school was 1 point above its district in both.
Because it is the only school listed, Laura N. Banks Elementary is technically both the highest- and lowest-result school in the ZIP code, but there is no meaningful school-to-school comparison; the supplied results also do not establish a multi-year test-score trend. Grade 3 offers a more encouraging district comparison: ELA was 29% at the school, 26% in the district and 39% statewide; math was 28%, 24% and 38%, respectively. Grade 4 ELA was 35%, just below the district’s 36% and 12 points below the state’s 47%. The older grade 5 science result, from 2024–25, was 20%, compared with 24% in the district and 34% statewide.
SchoolDigger’s rankings show a less favorable relative position over time: the school moved from the 37th percentile in 2023–24 to the 30th in 2024–25 and the 24th in 2025–26, a 13-point decline overall. Its SchoolDigger rating also changed from 2 stars in the first two years to 1 star in 2025–26; these ranking changes do not by themselves show that test scores fell. The student-teacher ratio is 17.6, and no free/reduced-lunch rate is reported, so families cannot use the supplied figures to compare staffing or income context with other local schools.
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