Paulo Freire Freedom School - Downtown

Paulo Freire Freedom School - Downtown is an intermediate school of very small scale in TUCSON, Arizona, one of the schools within CITY Center for Collaborative Learning (85448), enrolling 54 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 89% smaller than the state mean of about 494.

Paulo Freire Freedom School - Downtown is one of 3 schools operated by CITY Center for Collaborative Learning (85448), a district that teaches 292 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Paulo Freire Freedom School - Downtown records that 50% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 33% White, 9% multiracial, 6% Native American. By comparison, Pima County as a whole is about 36% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Paulo Freire Freedom School - Downtown reports 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.8:1, putting Paulo Freire Freedom School - Downtown tighter than the state norm the norm.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Pima County) logs 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. Paulo Freire Freedom School - Downtown is one of 398 public schools in Pima County (combined enrollment of about 140,692 students).

Nearest neighbor: City High School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Paulo Freire Freedom School - Downtown.

The school occupies a high-density site. Paulo Freire Freedom School - Downtown is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 26%: 73 students in 2018 compared to 54 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 48% to 33% over that span.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.