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Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) is the largest school district of Tucson, Arizona, in terms of enrollment. Dr. Dr. Gabriel Trujillo is the superintendent, appointed on September 12, 2017, by the Governing Board. [ 2 ]
Tucson Unified School District: Encompasses the central Tucson valley, including the lower Catalina Foothills and segments of the Tanque Verde Valley. As the largest school district in Tucson in terms of enrollment, TUSD has 115 schools serving grades K–12. Vail School District: Serves the far Southeast Side, including the community of Vail.
In 1982, the TUSD governing board renamed Special Projects High School to its current name University High School. The name represents the AP classes offered at the school. Around this time, parents complained about the discrimination of the school's enrollment of less than 12 percent minority students.
The Mexican American Studies Department Programs in the Tucson Unified School District was established in 1998 by high school teacher, Curtis Acosta, in an effort to help Chicano/a and Latino/a students reach their full potentials. [6] The department grew from offering a few classes at the beginning to about 43 classes in the years following. [6]
Tucson High is the oldest operating public high school in Arizona. On April 10, 1906, the Arizona Board of Regents resolved that as of September 1, 1906, students from all Arizona cities, having a population of more than 5,000, must have completed the 9th grade before enrolling in the University of Arizona Preparatory Department.
Sunnyside High School, opened in 1955, is home to two thousand students located on the south side of Tucson, Arizona.Sunnyside offers a variety of extracurricular programs, advanced placement courses, and specialized career and technical training programs.
Santa Rita High School is located in Groves Lincoln Park, Tucson, Arizona.The school was established in 1969. It was named after the Santa Rita Mountains, one of the mountain ranges surrounding the Tucson valley.
Rincon High School is a public high school in Tucson, Arizona.The school serves about 1,100 students in grades 9 to 12 in the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD). Since 1985, the campus has been shared with University High School, a separate accelerated institution.