Original Research by School Decision on Pcjted - Andrada Polytechnic High School
Andrada Polytechnic High School is a career and technical school serving grades nine through twelve, operating under the Pima County JTED. The school is located on South Houghton Road in Tucson. Because this is a career and technical school rather than a traditional comprehensive high school, the available data on academic performance does not include state testing results, a graduation rate, or typical accountability metrics. Those measures are absent from the record, which likely reflects the school’s specialized mission and the type of student population it serves; a parent should confirm directly with the school what academic or technical credentials students earn and how their progress is assessed.
The enrollment is very small, with just a single student reported across the grade band, enrolled in the eleventh grade. Demographically, that student is White. Data on economic disadvantage, special education services, and English learner status are all absent from the record. The school is not a charter school, and its magnet status and Title I status are not specified. Discipline data, course access information, staffing levels, and attendance rates were not available.
The parent district is the Pima County Joint Technological Education District, a regional entity that provides career and technical education programs across multiple high schools in Pima County. The district brief found no recent parent-relevant changes that could be confirmed from available sources. For families considering Andrada Polytechnic, understanding the school’s program offerings, industry certifications, dual-enrollment partnerships, and how students connect to JTED coursework at other campuses would be essential; none of those details were present in the data.
Tucson, where the school is situated, is a major desert city and the second-largest in Arizona. It blends a historic downtown core, the University of Arizona campus, and residential neighborhoods across a wide geographic spread. The city’s economy is anchored by the university, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, optics and tech industries, and tourism. The built environment ranges from older adobe and territorial-style buildings near downtown to mid-century commercial corridors and sprawling suburban development at the edges. Housing values in the zip code are around the state average, and rents have been stable; the national 30-year fixed mortgage rate was steady. The city’s metro area population has grown, with suburban expansion into areas such as Oro Valley, Marana, and Sahuarita.
The comparison set places this school relative to districts in Pima County, but proficiency, graduation rate, and chronic absenteeism data were all missing for the entity, so no meaningful academic comparison could be drawn. A parent researching this school has very little quantitative performance data to work with. The core question is what specific technical training pathway Andrada offers, how a student enrolls, and what outcomes students experience after completing the program. Those answers will need to come directly from the school or the Pima County JTED central office.
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