Sixth grade added to 3 more TUSD elementary schools next year

Tucson Unified School District will have three additional elementary schools that will include sixth grade beginning in the 2025-26 school year.

Those schools are: Borton Elementary Magnet School, 700 E 22nd St.; Annie W. Kellond Elementary, 6606 E Lehigh Dr.; and John B. Wright Elementary, 4311 E Linden St.

Before the additions of Borton, Kellond and Wright, TUSD elementary schools serving students grades kindergarten through sixth were: Banks, Collier, Davidson, Gale, Henry, Lynn-Urquides, Soleng Tom, Steele, Vesey and Whitmore.

“Parental choice is the main reason why the district will provide the K-6 options,” TUSD says.

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When the first round of K-6 schools was approved for the 2024-25 school year as a pilot, TUSD operations manager Bryant Nodine said that the district had lost hundreds of students during elementary-to-middle school transitions.

Tucson Unified School District started studying the concept of offering sixth grade in some of its elementary schools in 2019.