Fruchthendler Elementary School

Fruchthendler Elementary School, a low-enrollment primary school in TUCSON, Arizona, overseen by Tucson Unified District (4403), instructs 327 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Arizona's public schools average about 451 students each, so Fruchthendler Elementary School sits 27% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 88 schools in Tucson Unified District (4403) (40,316 students total), Fruchthendler Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Fruchthendler Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 36% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 3% Black, 2% Asian. By comparison, Pima County as a whole is about 59% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Fruchthendler Elementary School lists 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Pima County) logs that median household earnings sit near $70,315, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Pima County runs 398 public schools (combined enrollment of about 140,692 students), of which Fruchthendler Elementary School is one.

La Paloma Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Fruchthendler Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 8% since 2018, when it stood at 357 (now 327). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 59% to 49%. Class-load math has fell: from 22.3:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

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