📍 1302 S Avenida Vega, Tucson, Pima County, 85710
Palo Verde High Magnet School is a State/Public serving high age pupils, located in Tucson, Pima County. The school has 691 pupils enrolled. It is part of the Tucson Unified District (4403) school district. It serves grades 8–12 in an urban setting. The school employs 52.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, a student-teacher ratio of 13.1:1.
Palo Verde High Magnet School enrolls 691 students across grades 8–12. The student body is 55% male and 45% female. A teaching staff of 52.6 full-time-equivalent teachers supports the school, giving a student-teacher ratio of 13.1:1.
By race and ethnicity, the student body is 49% Hispanic or Latino, 26% White and 14% Black or African American.
| Race / ethnicity | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Hispanic or Latino | 336 | 49% |
| White | 183 | 26% |
| Black or African American | 95 | 14% |
| Two or more races | 37 | 5.4% |
| American Indian or Alaska Native | 20 | 2.9% |
| Asian | 16 | 2.3% |
| Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 4 | <1% |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data.
448 of the school's 691 students (65%) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility is a widely used indicator of the share of students from lower-income households.
Palo Verde High Magnet School is located in an urban setting (NCES locale: City, Large). The school runs a schoolwide Title I program, which provides federal funding to support students from low-income families. For civic and policy purposes, the school sits in congressional district OK-70.
Palo Verde High Magnet School is one of 90 schools in Tucson Unified District (4403), based in TUCSON, Arizona. The district serves 40,316 students district-wide and employs 2,823 full-time-equivalent teachers. With 691 students, Palo Verde High Magnet School is larger than the district average of about 448 students per school.
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