Bonillas Elementary Basic Curriculum Magnet School

Bonillas Elementary Basic Curriculum Magnet School is an elementary-level community of reasonably sized scale in TUCSON, Arizona, one of the schools within Tucson Unified District (4403), enrolling 402 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within Tucson Unified District (4403), which oversees 88 schools and 40,316 students, Bonillas Elementary Basic Curriculum Magnet School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Bonillas Elementary Basic Curriculum Magnet School lists that 68% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder breaks down as 19% White, 6% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Pima County as a whole is about 36% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

Across the wider county, Pima County reports that median household earnings sit near $70,315, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Pima County runs 398 public schools (combined enrollment of about 140,692 students), of which Bonillas Elementary Basic Curriculum Magnet School is one.

Lineweaver Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 6%: 381 students in 2018 compared to 402 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 today.

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