Original Research by School Decision on Daisy Education Corporation Dba. Sonoran Science a (90284)
Daisy Education Corporation dba. Sonoran Science A functions as a school district in Pima County, Arizona. For the school year that ended in 2024, the district operated a single school: Sonoran Science Academy - Davis Monthan, serving grades six through twelve. The district was small in enrollment, drawing a student body that was predominantly Hispanic and White, with measurable shares of Asian, Black, and multiracial students as well.
The most consequential fact about this district is that its sole school appears to have closed or gone inactive as of the 2024-2025 school year. Public records from the National Center for Education Statistics show the district listed as open with one school for the prior year, and as inactive with zero schools for the current year. For any family looking into this option, the district no longer operates a school. There is no functioning campus to enroll in.
When the school was active, state assessment results were suppressed across all tested grades and subjects. The number of students tested in each grade level was small, and Arizona’s reporting rules withhold proficiency rates when the tested count falls below a threshold. Because of this suppression, no academic performance picture is available for math, English language arts, or science. A parent considering the school in its active years would have had very limited public data to evaluate learning outcomes. The same applies to graduation rates, which were not reported for this district.
The one comparative metric that was available while the school operated was chronic absenteeism. The district’s chronic absenteeism rate placed it below the midpoint among Pima County’s districts, meaning that a higher share of students were absent for a substantial portion of the school year than at many other districts in the county. This is a soft spot that a parent would want to look into further with the school. On the spending side, per-pupil current expenditure was in the upper range compared to other Pima County districts, indicating that the district directed above-average resources toward its students.
The demographics of the district’s student body, when it was active, reflected a peer environment that included a broad mix of backgrounds. No data on the share of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch, receiving special education services, or classified as English learners was available, so the full economic and support needs profile of the student body is unknown.
For a family exploring school options in Pima County, the sole school in this district is no longer in operation. The district’s academic record from its active years is largely opaque due to suppressed testing data and an unreported graduation rate. The available indicators point to elevated chronic absenteeism and above-average spending. Those facts, taken together, paint a picture of a small, resource-intensive district whose single school is now gone, leaving no current enrollment pathway for families.
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