About Sunnyside Unified District
Sunnyside Unified District is a public school system serving Pima County, Arizona, based in Tucson. It serves 13,979 students across 22 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a city: large district. By enrollment it is the #16 largest of Arizona’s 659 school systems.
Size and structure
Sunnyside Unified District enrolls 13,979 students in 22 schools — an average of about 635 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #16 of 659 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Sunnyside Unified District, from the NCES Common Core of Data (13,979 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Sunnyside Unified District employs about 746 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 18.7:1 — above the Arizona average of about 17.8:1. Total district staff is roughly 1,672.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How Arizona funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Sunnyside Unified District are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
Arizona grades every school and district A–F under the state’s A–F Letter Grades system (A.R.S. §15-241), built from proficiency and year-over-year growth in English language arts, math and science, English-learner progress, graduation rate and college-and-career readiness. Read Sunnyside Unified District’s current grade and school results at the Arizona School Report Cards.
Accreditation status
Arizona does not require public-school districts to hold third-party accreditation; districts that pursue it most often use Cognia (formerly AdvancED/NCA). Look up Sunnyside Unified District in the free Cognia registry.
Sunnyside Unified District vs. Arizona
See every Arizona district side by side in the Arizona directory.
Look up Sunnyside Unified District’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):