About Tombstone Unified District
Tombstone Unified District is a public school system serving Cochise County, Arizona, based in Tombstone. It serves 874 students across 3 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a rural: distant district. By enrollment it is the #172 largest of Arizona’s 659 school systems.
Size and structure
Tombstone Unified District enrolls 874 students in 3 schools — an average of about 291 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #172 of 659 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Tombstone Unified District, from the NCES Common Core of Data (874 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
Tombstone Unified District employs about 54 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 16.1:1 — below the Arizona average of about 17.8:1, meaning comparatively smaller classes. Total district staff is roughly 141.
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 Tombstone 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 Tombstone 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 Tombstone Unified District in the free Cognia registry.
Tombstone Unified District vs. Arizona
See every Arizona district side by side in the Arizona directory.
Look up Tombstone 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):