Summary:
ZIP code 85748 has two elementary schools in Tucson Unified District: Soleng Tom Elementary School, serving PK–6, and Dunham Elementary School, serving PK–5. In the latest reported results, for 2025–26, the schools’ all-grades results put the area’s clearest shared strength in math: both are at or above the state’s 33% proficiency rate, while their average is 40%, or 7 percentage points above the state. In ELA, their average is 42%, just 1 point above the state’s 41%, because one school is above the state and the other is below.
Soleng leads in all-grades results, with 48% proficient in ELA and 44% in math, compared with 35% in each subject at Dunham. That gives Soleng a 13-point ELA lead and a 9-point math lead; Soleng is 7 points above the state in ELA and 11 points above in math, while Dunham is 6 points below the state in ELA and 2 points above in math. The ordering reverses in fifth-grade math: Dunham’s 58% is 6 points higher than Soleng’s 52%, and both are well above the state’s 38%. Soleng’s available grade-level results also exceed state results throughout grades 3–6, with especially large advantages in sixth-grade ELA (14 points) and math (15 points).
SchoolDigger’s reported statewide percentile for Soleng rose from 42 in 2023–24 to 60 in 2025–26, while Dunham’s fell from 57 in 2018–19 to 37 in 2022–23. Soleng is larger (306 students versus 142) and has a higher student–teacher ratio (15.2 versus 12); Dunham’s reported 2019–20 spending per student was higher, at $8,460 versus $5,723. Soleng also reported fifth-grade science proficiency of 40% in 2024–25, 6 points above the state. These figures do not establish why results differ, and the schools’ ranking years do not overlap; some Dunham grade-level results are suppressed, no Dunham science result is reported, and free/reduced-lunch figures are unavailable.
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