Tucson Unified Virtual Academy
TUCSON · AZ · Tucson Unified District (4403) · Public · K-12 combined
📄 Shareable scorecard →📋 At a glance
- 📚 1 AP courses offered — Moderate
- ✅ Gifted & talented program
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 47% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 4% by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 17% (Bottom 2% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Tucson Unified Virtual Academy compares for families
Solid mid-tier academic profile.
- ▸ LocallyAZ sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: PCJTED - Catalina High School, Catalina High School, Veritas Academy Of Tucson and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Moderate — some AP / advanced course access
Bottom 47% of US high schools
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 4% by test-taker volume
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
Bottom 2% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate
Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of +66.8%/year, projecting from 2024's 1,184 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue upside
At $12,614 per student in district revenue, the 14,116 students projected to be gained by 2029 represent ≈ $178,059,224/year in additional funding.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PCJTED - Catalina High School TUCSON |
Public | 0.0 | — | — |
| Catalina High School TUCSON |
Public | 0.0 | 580 | +2.3% |
| Veritas Academy Of Tucson Tucson |
Private | 0.3 | 185 | +79.6% |
| BASIS Tucson Primary TUCSON |
Public · charter | 0.7 | — | — |
| AmeriSchools Academy - Tucson TUCSON |
Public · charter | 0.8 | — | — |
| Pima Prevention Partnership-Tucson Tucson |
Public · charter | 0.9 | — | — |
| Southern Arizona Community Academy TUCSON |
Public · charter | 1.2 | 64 | -55.9% |
| Edge High School - Himmel Park TUCSON |
Public · charter | 1.3 | 86 | -7.5% |