Frances Owen Holaway Elementary School

Frances Owen Holaway Elementary School, a low-enrollment elementary campus in TUCSON, Arizona, run under Amphitheater Unified District (4406), educates 241 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Arizona's public schools average about 451 students each, so Frances Owen Holaway Elementary School sits 47% leaner than that benchmark.

Amphitheater Unified District (4406) runs 22 schools in total, collectively educating 11,277 students. Frances Owen Holaway Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Frances Owen Holaway Elementary School reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 62% of enrollment. Other groups include 24% White, 5% Black, 5% multiracial, 2% Native American. By comparison, Pima County as a whole is about 36% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Frances Owen Holaway Elementary School has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Frances Owen Holaway Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Pima County put median household income runs about $70,315, 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 Frances Owen Holaway Elementary School is one.

Presidio School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 39%: 397 students in 2018 compared to 241 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 57% to 62% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 in 2025.

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