Original Research by School Decision on Pima County Jted - Amphi Land Lab
Pima County JTED – Amphi Land Lab is a career and technical school serving grades 9 through 12 in Tucson. It is part of the Pima County JTED district. The school is exceedingly small. This is not a comprehensive high school where students take a full academic course load alongside electives. It is a specialized CTE site, and its size and purpose shape everything about it.
The enrollment is tiny, in the single digits, and composed entirely of students in grades 11 and 12. No state testing results were available for this school, and because it is a career and technical school, many standard metrics such as a four-year graduation rate and chronic absenteeism rate do not apply or were not reported. A parent looking at this school would need to understand that it does not function like a traditional high school. It is a placement for students who are already enrolled elsewhere and attend this site for specific career and technical programming.
Students at the Amphi Land Lab come from a small group that is majority white, with a modest share of students who identify as two or more races and a smaller share of Hispanic students. Information on students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, students with an IEP, and English learners was not available. The school sits in the city of Tucson, a large desert city with a University of Arizona-anchored economy, a revitalized downtown connected by streetcar, and a mix of historic central neighborhoods and sprawling suburban development. Housing in the school's zip code is moderately priced compared to the state average. The district itself, Pima County JTED, operates multiple career and technical programs across the county; the district brief turned up no specific recent changes or announcements that would be relevant to a parent evaluating this particular site.
Because the school is so small and specialized, a parent or resident cannot draw typical conclusions from it. There is no academic performance data to compare, no cohort size to read a peer environment from, and no graduation rate to assess. The school is a career and technical placement, and the most important question for a family is whether the specific program offered at this location aligns with a student's goals. That information was not included in the available data. A parent would want to contact the school directly to learn what CTE pathways are available, how students are placed there, and what the relationship is with the student's home high school. Without that, the school is best understood as a narrow-focus site serving a very small number of upper-grade students in Tucson.
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