Best Public Schools in Zip Code 85750

ZIP code 85750 has five schools—three elementary schools, one middle school and one high school—serving students from elementary through high school. Across the group, every school’s All Grades ELA and mathematics proficiency is above the state result: the schools average 69% in ELA versus 41% statewide, and 63% in mathematics versus 33%. The strongest overall takeaway is that results are above state levels at all five schools, though mathematics scores vary considerably from school to school.

BASIS Tucson North leads All Grades ELA at 77%, while Ventana Vista Elementary School leads mathematics at 70% and fifth-grade science at 71%. At the lower end, Esperero Canyon Middle School has the group’s lowest All Grades mathematics score, 49%—21 points below Ventana Vista. Fruchthendler Elementary School has the lowest All Grades ELA score, 64%, 13 points below BASIS, but its ELA and mathematics results are 35 and 44 points above its Tucson Unified District figures. Grade-level comparisons can change the picture: in seventh and eighth grades, BASIS leads Esperero in both subjects, while Esperero is ahead in sixth-grade ELA. Fifth-grade science also ranges from Fruchthendler’s 52% to Ventana Vista’s 71%; all four reporting elementary schools exceed the state’s 34%.

SchoolDigger’s rankings show mixed movement rather than a shared upward trend: from 2023–24 to 2025–26, Canyon View Elementary School moved from the 90th to the 87th percentile, and Fruchthendler from the 93rd to the 87th; Ventana Vista stayed at the 92nd percentile and Esperero shifted from the 87th to the 85th. Fruchthendler’s latest SchoolDigger ranking is 119 of 900 schools, at the 87th percentile, despite its district’s rank of 200 of 267, at the 25th percentile. Reported student–teacher ratios range from 14.8 at Canyon View and Fruchthendler to 19.9 at Esperero, with no clear pattern linking ratios to results. Because proficiency scores are available for only one year and SchoolDigger ranking pools differ, rankings do not establish test-score trends or provide direct head-to-head comparisons.