Catalina Foothills High School

Catalina Foothills High School is one of the large four-year high schools in TUCSON, Arizona, one of the schools within Catalina Foothills Unified District (4410), with 1,865 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 196% above the state mean of about 631.

Catalina Foothills High School is one of 8 schools operated by Catalina Foothills Unified District (4410), a district that teaches 5,088 students overall.

On demographics, Catalina Foothills High School records that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 31% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 5% Asian.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Catalina Foothills High School has 92 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.2:1. That tracks the state average closely.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Pima County put the typical household earns roughly $70,315 per year, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Pima County runs 398 public schools (combined enrollment of about 140,692 students), of which Catalina Foothills High School is one.

Sunrise Drive Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 10%: 1,703 students in 2018 compared to 1,865 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 59% to 54% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 21.6:1 in 2018 to 20.2:1 in 2025.

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