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State hands out letter grades for schools in southern Arizona
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TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) – The Arizona State Board of Education has released the letter grades for all schools in the state.
The good news for southern Arizona, no Fs.
Tucson Unified, our largest district, had 85 schools receive grades. Out of those, 14 got an A while 10 received a D.
At Sunnyside Unified, one school out of 19 got an A. But only three received Ds.
The grades for all southern Arizona schools can be found below.
PIMA COUNTY
Academy Del Sol, Inc.
- C – Academy Del Sol.
- B – Academy Del Sol-Star Valley Academy.
Academy of Mathematics and Science South, Inc.
- B – Academy of Math and Science Avondale, Academy of Math and Science Desert Sky, Academy of Math and Science Glendale, Academy of Math and Science South Mountain.
- A -Academy of Math and Science Peoria Advanced, Academy of Mathematics and Science South, Academy of Math and Science, Academy of Math and Science Advanced Virtual.
Academy of Tucson, Inc.
- B – Academy of Tucson Elementary, Academy of Tucson Middle.
Ajo Unified District
Altar Valley Elementary District
- B – Altar Valley Middle.
- D – Robles Elementary.
Amphitheater Unified District
- A – Copper Creek Elementary, Lawrence W Cross Middle, Marion Donaldson Elementary, Painted Sky Elementary, Richard B Wilson Junior High, The Innovation Academy, Winifred Harelson Elementary
- B – Coronado K-8 School, Helen Keeling Elementary, LM Prince, Lulu Walker, Mesa Verde Elementary, Rio Vista Elementary
- C – Amphitheater Middle, E.C. Nash, La Cima Middle
- D – Frances Owen Holaway Elementary
Aprender Tucsob
- C – Southside Community School.
Arizona Community Development Corporation
- B – La Paloma Academy (Lakeside).
- C – La Paloma Academy, La Paloma Academy-South.
Baboquivari Unified School District
- C – Baboquivari Middle.
- D – Indian Oasis Intermediate Elementary.
BASIS Charter Schools
- A – BASIS Oro Valley Primary, BASIS Tucson Primary.
Carden of Tucson, Inc.
Catalina Foothills Unified District
- A – Canyon View Elementary, Esperero Canyon Middle, Manzanita, Orange Grove Middle, Sunrise Drive Elementary, Ventana Vista Elementary.
CITY Center for Collaborative Learning
- A – Paulo Freire Freedom School-University.
- B – Paulo Freire Freedom.
Continental Elementary District
- B – Continental Elementary.
Daisy Education Corporation dba Sonoran Science Academy
- A – Sonoran Science Academy East.
- B – Sonoran Virtual Academy
Desert Sky Community School, Inc.
- B – Desert Sky Community School.
Ed Ahead
- C – Academy Adventures Midtown.
Educational Impact, Inc.
Flowing Wells Unified District
- A – Flowing Wells Junior High, J Robert Hendricks Elementary, Robert Richardson Elementary
- B – Centennial Elementary, Douglas Elementary, Laguna Elementary
- C – Homer Davis Elementary.
Great Expectations Academy
- A – Great Expectations Academy.
Griffin Foundation, Inc.
- B – Future Investment Middle.
- D – Children Reaching for the Sky.
Hermosa Montessori Charter School
- A – Hermosa Montessori Charter.
Highland Free School
- A – Highland Free School.
Khalsa Family Services
Legacy Traditional School
- A – Legacy Traditional-Northwest Tucson.
Leman Academy of Excellence, Inc.
- A – Leman Academy of Excellence, Leman Academy of Excellence-East Mesa, Leman Academy of Excellence-Oro Valley.
- B – Leman Academy of Excellence-Central Tucson, Leman Academy of Excellence-East Tucson, Leman Academy of Excellence-Sierra Vista.
- D – Leman Virtual Academy.
Marana Unified District
- A – Coyote Trail Elementary, Degrazia Elementary, Dove Mountain K-8, Ironwood Elementary, Rattlesnake Ridge Elementary.
- B – Butterfield Element, Gladden Farms, Marjorie W Estes Elementary, Picture Rocks Elementary, Quail Run Elementary, Twin Peaks Elementary
- C – Marana Middle.
Math and Science Success Academy, Inc.
- A – Math and Science Success Academy.
Montessori Schoolhouse of Tucson, Inc.
- B – Montessori Schoolhouse.
Sahuarita Unified District
- A – Anza Trail, Copper View Elementary, Wrightson Ridge K-8.
- B – Sahuarita Intermediate, Sopori Elementary
- C – Sahuarita Middle.
Satori, Inc.
Science Technology Engineering and Math Arizona
- C – Da Vinci Tree Academy.
Sunnyside Unified District
- A – Elvira Elementary.
- B – Esperanza Elementary, Gallego Intermediate Fine Arts Magnet School, Liberty Elementary, Los Amigos Elementary, Los Ninos Elementary, Mission Manor Elementary, Rivera Elementary.
- C – Apollo Middle, Billy Lane Lauffer Middle, Craycroft Elementary, Drexel Elementary, Sierra 2-8
- D – Challenger Middle, Santa Clara Elementary, Summit View Elementary.
Tanque Verde Unified District
- A – Agua Caliente, Emily Gray Junior, Tanque Verde Elementary.
The Charter Foundation, Inc.
- A – Amerischools Academy-North.
- B – AmeriSchools Academy-Yuma.
- C – AmeriSchools Academy-Camelback, AmeriSchools Academy-Country Club.
Tucson Country Day School, Inc.
Tucson Unified District
- A – Annie Kellond Elementary, Bonillas Elementary, Carrillo Intermediate, Fruchthendler Elementary, Gale Elementary, Henry Hank Oyama, Ida Flood Dodge Traditional Middle, Lineweaver Elementary, Miles-Exploratory Learning Center, Sam Hughes Elementary, Soleng Tom Elementary, Wakefield Middle.
- B – Alice Vail Middle, Anna Henry Elementary, Blenman Elementary, Borman K-8 School, Borton Primary, CE Rose Elementary, Collier Elementary, Davis Bilingual, Drachman Primary, Ford Elementary, Gridley Middle, Howell Peter Elementary, Hudlow Elementary, John B Wright Elementary, Laura N. Banks Elementary, Maldonado Amelia Elementary, Mansfeld Middle, Marshall Elementary, Mission View Elementary, Ochoa Elementary, Roberts Naylor, Robins Elementary, Tolson Elementary, Utterback Middle, Van Buskirk Elementary, Vesey Elementary, W Arthur Sewel Elementary, WV Whitmore Elementary, Wheeler Elementary.
- C – Anna Lawrence Intermediate, Bloom Elementary, Cragin Elementary, Davidson Elementary, Dietz K-8, Doolen Middle, Dunham Elementary, Frances J Warren Elementary, Harold Steele Elementary, Holladay Intermediate, John E White Elementary, Lynn Urquides, Magee Middle, Manzo Elementary, McCorkle PK-8, Miller Elementary, Morgan Maxwell, Myers-Ganoung Elementary, Robison Elementary, Roskruge Bilingual, Safford K-8, Tully Elementary, Valencia Middle.
- D – Booth-Fickett, Cavett Elementary, Hollinger K-8, Irene Erickson Elementary, Pistor Middle, Pueblo Gardens Elementary, Raul Grijalva Elementary, Secrist Middle.
Vail Unified District
- A – Acacia Elementary, Civano Community K-8, Copper Ridge Elementary, Corona Foothills Middle, Cottonwood Elementary, Desert Sky Middle, Desert Willow Elementary, Esmond Station, Mesquite Elementary, Ocotillo Ridge Elementary, Old Vail Middle, Rincon Vista Middle, Senita Valley Elementary, Sycamore Elementary.
- B – Vail Blended Learning.
Benson USD
- A – Benson Middle, Benson Primary.
- B – Lowell School.
- C – Bowie Elementary, Greenway Primary.
Center for Academic Success
- A – Center for Academic Success #3, Center for Academic Success #5.
- C – Center for Academic Success.
Cochise County Elementary District
Double Adobe Elementary District
- B – Double Adobe Elementary.
Douglas Unified District
- A – Clawson School
- B – Faras Elementary, Paul H Huber Junior High, Ray Borane Middle, Stevenson Elementary.
- C – Joe Carlson Elementary, Sarah Marley.
- D – Elfrida Elementary.
Fort Huachuca Accommodation District
- A – Colonel Smith Middle, General Myer Elementary.
McNeal Elementary District
Naco Elementary District
Palominas Elementary School District
- B – Coronado Elementary.
- C – Palominas Elementary.
Pearce Elementary District
Sierra Vista Unified District
- A – Bella Vista Elementary, Huachuca Mountain Elementary, Village Meadows Elementary.
- B – Carmichael Elementary, Joyce Clark Middle, Pueblo Del Sol Elementary, Town & Country Elementary.
St. David Unified District
Tombstone Unified District
- B – Walter J Meyer.
- C – Huachuca City.
Willcox Unified District
- C – Willcox Elementary, Willcox Middle.
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY
Kaizen Education Foundation
- C – Colegio Petite Arizona.
Mexicayotl Academy, Inc.
Nogales Unified District
- A – Francisco Vasquez De Coronado Elementary, Robert Bracker Elementary
- B – Challenger Elementary, Desert Shadows Middle, Lincoln Elementary, Wade Carpenter Middle
- C – AJ Mitchell Elementary, Mary L Welty Elementary
Patagonia Elementary District
A – Patagonia Elementary.
Santa Cruz Elementary District
A – Little Red Schoolhouse.
Santa Cruz Valley Opportunities in Education, Inc.
C – Montessori De Santa Cruz.
Santa Cruz Valley Unified District
A – Elgin Elementary.
B – Calabasas School, Coatimundi Middle School, Mountain View School, San Cayetano Elementary,
PIMA COUNTY
Academy of Tucson, Inc.
- B – Academy of Tucson High.
Ajo Unified District
Amphitheater Unified District
- A – Canyon Del Oro High.
- B – Ironwood Ridge High.
- C – Amphitheater High.
Baboquivari Unified School District
Blue Adobe Project
Catalina Foothills Unified District
- B – Catalina Foothills High.
CITY Center for Collaborative Learning
Flowing Wells Unified District
Marana Unified District
- B – Marana High, Mountain View High.
Sahuarita Unified District
- A – Sahuarita High.
- C – Walden Grove High.
Sunnyside Unified District
- B – Sunnyside High
- C – Desert View High.
Tanque Verde Unified District
Tucson Unified District
- A – University High.
- B – Innovation Tech, Pubelo High, Rincon High, Sabino High, Tucson High,
- C – Cholla High, Sahuaro High, Santa Rita High.
- D – Catalina High, Palo Verde High.
- Vail Unified District
- A – Andrada Polytechnic, Cienega High, Empire High, Mica Mountain High.
COCHISE COUNTY
Benson Unified School District
- B – Benson High.
- C – Bisbee High.
Douglas Unified District
Sierra Vista Unified District
St. David Unified District
Tombstone Unified District
Valley Union High School District
Willcox Unified District
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY
Nogales Unified District
Patagonia Union High School District
- A – Patagonia Union High.
Santa Cruz Valley Unified District
PIMA COUNTY
American Charter Schools Foundation
Baboquivari Unified School District
Canyon Rose Academy, Inc.
- A – Canyon Rose Academy-East.
- B – Canyon Rose Academy.
Compass High School, Inc.
CPLC Community Schools
- A – Envision High.
- B – Toltecali High.
Desert Rose Academy, Inc.
Eastpointe High School, Inc.
Flowing Wells Unified District
Ha’san Educational Services
- B – Ha’san Preparatory & Leadership.
Himmel Park Edge School, Inc.
- B – Edge High-Himmel Park.
Kaizen Education Foundation
Marana Unified District
- B – MCAT High.
- B – Mountain Rose Academy, Inc.
Nosotros, Inc.
Pima County Accommodation School District
- B – Pima County Schools Superintendent’s Diploma Program.
Pima Prevention Partnership dba Pima Partnership School
- B – Pima Partnership School.
Pima Rose Academy, Inc.
Pima County
- B – Pima Vocational High.
Pima Prevention Partnership
- B – Arizona Collegiate High.
Portable Practical Educational Preparation, Inc.
- B – Arizona Insight Academy, Celestino Fernandez Learning Center, Cesar Chavez Learning Center, Jose Yepez Learning Center, Raul H. Castro Learning Center.
- C – Alice S. Paul Learning Center, Colin L. Powell Learning Center.
Southern Arizona Community Academy, Inc.
- B – Southern Arizona Community Academy.
Southgate Academy, Inc.
Sunnyside Unified District
Tucson Preparatory School
Tucson Unified District
- A – Project More High.
- B – Teenage Parent Program.
Tucson Youth Development
Vail Unified District
COCHISE COUNTY
Benson Unified School District
- A – Benson Digital Learning Center.
Center for Academic Success, Inc.
- A – Center for Academic Success #1, Center for Academic Success #2.
Cochise County Accommodation School District
- B – New Crossroads Academy.
Safford Unified District
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY
Nogales Unified District
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Can’t make the trip to Atlanta for Arizona State football’s Peach Bowl matchup versus Texas? Harkins Theatres has you covered.
The Valley-owned theatre is inviting Sun Devil fans to watch the Peach Bowl live on the big screen at two locations: Harkins Tempe Marketplace and Camelview at Scottsdale Fashion Square.
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Kickoff is at 11 a.m. on Jan. 1. A win over Texas would propel Arizona State into the College Football semifinals, where it’ll play the winner of Oregon-Ohio State.
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Arizona State getting into the College Football Playoff, or even winning the Big 12 alone, was unprecedented.
The Sun Devils are the talk of the Valley right now, and whether it’s from those traveling across the country to watch in person or cheering from home in the Valley, the team is thankful for all the support they’re getting.
“I’m grateful and blessed to be in the corner that (Sun Devil fans) want to be supporting,” Arizona State running back Cam Skattebo said. “I know what it costs and what it takes to get there. It’s nice to have those people that try their hardest to get there and could be spending every dollar in their bank account to get there.”
Kris Mayes, the attorney general of Arizona, has vowed to fight the incoming Trump administration over key aspects of its immigration policy, including any attempt to set up deportation camps on Arizonan soil or remove thousands of migrant “dreamers” who came to the US as children.
In an interview with the Guardian, Mayes said that any move by Donald Trump in his second presidential term to unpick the rights of dreamers to remain and work in the US would be a “bright red line for me. I will not stand for an attempt to deport them, or undermine them.”
Arizona, a critical border state that will be on the frontline of the struggle over Trump’s plans for mass deportations, has more than 30,000 dreamers, undocumented migrants who entered the US unlawfully as children but who were afforded rights under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca). The program was introduced by Barack Obama in 2012 but has been under relentless attack by Republicans ever since.
“I definitely will be fighting on behalf of dreamers,” Mayes said. “These folks are firefighters, police officers, teachers – they are part of the very fabric of our state and we will protect them.”
Trump tried to scrap Daca protections during his first presidency and was only stopped by a narrow ruling from the US supreme court. He recently softened his position, telling NBC News that he wanted to find a way to allow dreamers to stay in the country, though his apparent U-turn has left many skeptical of his intentions.
The Daca program is already being challenged by Republican states in a lawsuit that is currently before the ultra-conservative fifth circuit court of appeals. The case is almost certain to reach the supreme court, which has a six-to-three supermajority of rightwing justices.
Despite the hurdles facing dreamers, Mayes said she remains optimistic.
“I think the supreme court will ultimately see the merits of protecting them. We want to give the courts the opportunity to make the right decision here, and we’ll be making very strong arguments on that proposition,” she said.
Arizona’s attorney general also had strong words about any attempt by Trump to construct detention camps in her state as part of his plans to mass-deport millions of undocumented immigrants. She said her army of lawyers were also primed to push back on any move to renew family separation, the policy under which thousands of children were taken away from their parents at the Mexican border as part of a “zero tolerance” strategy.
“If Trump tries to engage in family separation, or build mass deportation camps, I will do everything I can legally to fight that. That is not happening in Arizona, not on our soil,” she said.
Mayes added that family separation – which has left up to 1,000 families still rent apart six years later – was “fundamentally anathema to who Arizonans are”.
Mayes and her team have been preparing for months for the anticipated whirlwind of activity as soon as Trump re-enters the White House on 20 January. They have “scoured”, as she put it, Project 2025, the rightwing playbook for a Trump second term compiled by the Heritage Foundation.
She has also been working closely with other Democratic state attorneys general, noting that between them they filed more than 100 lawsuits during Trump’s first presidency, winning 80% of them.
“One of our strengths is that we are doing this very much together, we are united and we are organized,” Mayes said.
The importance of cross-state cooperation is likely to be all the more critical over border issues.
Mayes said that she was working with her Democratic counterparts Rob Bonta of California and Raúl Torrez of New Mexico – with only the Republican attorney general of Texas, Ken Paxton, taking a very different, anti-immigrant approach.
“Three of the four border states have attorneys general in Democratic hands and we are going to fight for due process and for individual rights,” she explained.
A complicating factor is Proposition 314, the ballot measure passed in Arizona in November with a resounding 63% of the vote. It allows state police to arrest any undocumented person who crosses into the US other than at legal ports of entry.
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Mayes said that the decision would not deter her from resisting Trump’s unconstitutional moves.
“Proposition 314 tells us that Arizonans are fed up with a dysfunctional border,” she said.
“We are facing a serious fentanyl crisis in our state, and there’s no doubt that Arizonans want our border addressed. But when Arizonans voted for Donald Trump they did not vote to shred the Arizona and US constitution – I strongly believe that.”
What was needed at the border was more federal resources to increase border patrol boots on the ground, boost the interception of fentanyl, and enhance prosecution of drug cartels. What was not needed, Mayes insisted, was Trump’s threatened plan to send in the national guard and even the US military to act as a souped-up deportation force.
“There’s nothing more unAmerican than using the military against Americans,” she said. “It’s clearly unconstitutional, and it’s not something Arizonans want to see.”
Since being elected to the position of Arizona’s top law enforcement officer in 2022, Mayes has established herself as a rising star in the Democratic party capable of negotiating the at times fraught politics of a border state. Her most high-profile act came in April when she indicted 18 people including Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani and former chief of staff Mark Meadows for participating in the 2020 “fake electors” conspiracy.
A similar prosecution of fake electors in Georgia was recently upended after an appeals court disqualified the Atlanta prosecutor in charge of the case, Fani Willis.
Mayes told the Guardian that despite Trump’s victory in November, she had no intention of dropping the fake electors case. “These indictments were handed down by a state grand jury, and you don’t do justice by popular vote. The case is in the courts now, and that’s where it’s going to stay until it’s over.”
Such a prominent prosecution could place her in the crosshairs of Kash Patel, Trump’s pick for director of the FBI. Should Patel be confirmed for the job by the US Senate, he has made it clear he will pursue revenge investigations against those deemed to be Trump’s enemies.
Mayes didn’t want to discuss Patel’s nomination. But she did say: “I’m not afraid of anyone. I’m going to do my job, uphold the law and protect Arizonans. I’m going to do it no matter who is at the helm of the FBI.”
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The Arizona Wildcats alum has secured a two-year contract with the Miami Heat after beginning the season on a two-way contract. Shams Charania of ESPN was first to report the contract conversion.
Johnson made two appearances for the Heat this month but otherwise has played with the organization’s G League affiliate, the Sioux Falls Skyforce.
He averaged 21.2 points and 8.3 rebounds in the G League. Johnson helped lead the Skyforce to the G League Winter Showcase championship game over the weekend.
Johnson went undrafted after a standout redshirt senior season at Arizona where he averaged 11.5 points and 5.9 rebounds. Johnson played his first four collegiate seasons at San Diego State.
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