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Tucson Unified District

Arizona · runs pre-K through grade 12

NCES ID 0408800 · tusd1.org · (520) 225-6060

Tucson Unified is the only school district serving 12 of the 27 ZIP Code areas it touches, shares 11 more with neighbors, and holds under half a percent of the homes in the remaining 4. It covers 221,856 homes and 481,310 residents. By homes covered it ranks 3rd of the 214 districts in Arizona.

Where this district is the answer, and where it is not

At 969 homes to the square mile this is city territory, and district lines in a city follow streets. Tucson Unified covers 229 square miles in all — small enough that a single ZIP Code area can hold most of it, and several ZIP Codes can cut across it.

  • Homes inside the boundary221,856
  • Residents481,310
  • ZIP Code areas it reaches27
  • Where it is the only district12
  • Where it shares with another district11
  • Where it holds under half a percent4
  • Land area229 square miles
  • Homes per square mile969

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 85710 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 85724 it holds no homes at all. Same district, opposite answers, and a lookup that names it without the share tells the second household the same thing as the first.

  • ZIP Code 85710 · Tucson, Arizona100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 85711 · Tucson, Arizona100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 85713 · Tucson, Arizona100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 85716 · Tucson, Arizona100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 85712 · Tucson, Arizona100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 85715 · Tucson, Arizona100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 85757 · Valencia West, Arizona100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 85701 · Tucson, Arizona100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 85708 · Tucson, Arizona100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 85707 · Tucson, Arizona24 of 24 homes
  • ZIP Code 85723 · Tucson, Arizona6 of 6 homes
  • ZIP Code 85726 · Tucson, Arizona1 of 1 home
  • ZIP Code 85730 · Tucson, Arizona98% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 85745 · Tucson Mountains, Arizona98% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 85746 · Drexel Heights, Arizona97% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 85748 · Tucson, Arizona92% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 85714 · Tucson, Arizona88% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 85735 · Three Points, Arizona72% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 85719 · Tucson, Arizona59% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 85749 · Tanque Verde, Arizona53% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 85750 · Catalina Foothills, Arizona47% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 85705 · Tucson, Arizona19% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 85718 · Catalina Foothills, Arizona17% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 85743 · Picture Rocks, Arizona20 homes, under half a percent
  • ZIP Code 85619 · Summerhaven, Arizonano homes at all
  • ZIP Code 85721 · Tucson, Arizonano homes at all
  • ZIP Code 85724 · Tucson, Arizonano homes at all

What one name misses where high school is arranged elsewhere

Tucson Unified is the largest district in 20 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 16,224 of the 223,630 homes those areas hold — though in 12 of them it holds every home there is. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.

ZIP Code 85719 · Tucson, Arizona is a two-district area: 12,294 of its 20,781 homes are inside Tucson Unified, and the other 8,487 homes are with Amphitheater Unified. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

Tucson Unified holds 4,557 of the 8,606 homes in ZIP Code 85749 · Tanque Verde, Arizona, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 4,048 homes with Tanque Verde Unified and 1 home in a district too small to name here.

In ZIP Code 85735 · Three Points, Arizona the split runs 3,351 to 1,280 and the larger part is Tucson Unified's: the rest is 1,280 homes with Altar Valley Elementary and Marana Unified.

In ZIP Code 85714 · Tucson, Arizona the split runs 4,830 to 667 and the larger part is Tucson Unified's: the rest is 667 homes with Sunnyside Unified.

In ZIP Code 85701 · Tucson, Arizona the single-name answer is the true one: Tucson Unified holds all 3,490 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.

ZIP Code 85750 · Catalina Foothills, Arizona is close to being two districts in equal parts: Tucson Unified holds 6,390 of its 13,599 homes and Catalina Foothills Unified leads the rest. A lookup that picks the larger name is making a coin-toss look like a fact.

Tucson Unified reaches into ZIP Code 85705 · Tucson, Arizona with 5,340 of its 28,336 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and Amphitheater Unified leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 5,340 homes.

ZIP Code 85718 · Catalina Foothills, Arizona is another area where Tucson Unified is present without being the answer: 2,700 of its 15,619 homes, behind Catalina Foothills Unified.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Tucson Unified runs pre-K through grade 12 itself, so an address it holds sees no change of authority between grade school and high school. The districts listed below are the ones that take the other homes in the ZIP Code areas it shares — Amphitheater Unified, Catalina Foothills Unified and Marana Unified. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

  • Amphitheater Unified District24,711 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Catalina Foothills Unified District17,037 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Marana Unified District13,474 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Flowing Wells Unified District10,061 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Tanque Verde Unified District4,975 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Sunnyside Unified District1,070 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Tucson Unified shares ZIP Code areas with 7 different districts. The most frequent are Amphitheater Unified, Tanque Verde Unified, Catalina Foothills Unified and Flowing Wells Unified. In a neighborhood this crowded the question is not which district serves the ZIP Code but which side of which street an address is on.

  • Amphitheater Unified District3 shared ZIP areas
  • Tanque Verde Unified District3 shared ZIP areas
  • Catalina Foothills Unified District2 shared ZIP areas
  • Flowing Wells Unified District2 shared ZIP areas
  • Marana Unified District2 shared ZIP areas
  • Sunnyside Unified District2 shared ZIP areas

Tucson Unified and Amphitheater Unified school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 85705 · Tucson, Arizona
  • ZIP Code 85718 · Catalina Foothills, Arizona
  • ZIP Code 85719 · Tucson, Arizona

Tucson Unified and Tanque Verde Unified school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 85730 · Tucson, Arizona
  • ZIP Code 85748 · Tucson, Arizona
  • ZIP Code 85749 · Tanque Verde, Arizona

Tucson Unified and Catalina Foothills Unified school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 85718 · Catalina Foothills, Arizona
  • ZIP Code 85750 · Catalina Foothills, Arizona

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What to do next

Ask the district office to confirm your street address: look on its site for a school locator, a find my school tool or an attendance zone map, or call the office.

A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not a boundary: in 11 of the 27 ZIP Code areas Tucson Unified reaches, at least one other district holds a real share of the homes as well, and the line between them runs along streets. Only the district can say which side of that line an address is on.

District websites and phone numbers here come from the NCES Common Core of Data directory, 2024-25 school year, filed under the same district ID as the Census boundary files. Where it lists no usable website, none is printed rather than guessed.

If a house purchase depends on the answer, ask the district itself for written confirmation of that exact address. A listing is not a district record, and neither is this page.

Where these numbers come from

The homes were counted in the 2020 Census and the district lines are the 2026 boundary file, so a fast-growing area may have changed since; ZIP Codes here are the Census Bureau's ZIP Code Tabulation Areas; a share is a share of homes, not the chance that one address is in a district; and a district is not a school attendance zone. Every source, file and caveat is on the method page.