Roskruge Bilingual Elementary School - Closed, Tucson AZ

Original Research by School Decision on Roskruge Bilingual Elementary School - Closed

Roskruge Bilingual Elementary School is no longer open. Its lifecycle status is inactive. Any data that exists is historical, predating the closure, and does not reflect a current school a parent could enroll in. What is available comes from a single school year that ended nearly two decades ago, and the rest of the record is largely empty. This is a closed campus, not a live option, so the narrative is necessarily brief.

The school was a regular public elementary school within the Tucson Unified District, located at 501 East 6th Street in Tucson. Tucson itself is a large desert city, the second-most populous in Arizona, with a historic downtown core, the University of Arizona campus, and a wide geographic spread that makes much of the city automobile-dependent outside the central area. The university is the city’s largest employer, and the economy also draws on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, optics and tech industries, and tourism. The Sun Link streetcar connects downtown to the university, but the school’s address on 6th Street places it near that corridor. The district, Tucson Unified, operates under a federal desegregation order and has seen substantial enrollment decline over the years, leading to discussions about school utilization and closures. Voters in 2024 renewed a Maintenance & Operations Override that funds teacher salaries and programs like art, music, and full-day kindergarten, showing continued community investment in the district’s remaining schools.

For Roskruge specifically, the only academic performance data comes from the 2009-10 school year, when the state administered the AIMS assessment. In third grade, roughly a third of students scored proficient or above in math, and about half did so in reading. Fourth-grade math and reading proficiency rates were similar, while science proficiency for fourth graders was lower. Fifth graders posted the highest results, with a majority reaching proficiency in both math and reading. Those figures placed the school’s overall proficiency index in the top quartile relative to other schools in Pima County for that year. No enrollment, demographic, staffing, discipline, or graduation data exists in the record, nor are there any program offerings or civil rights reports. Because this was an elementary school, there is no graduation rate to expect.

For a parent or resident looking at this entity today, the essential fact is that it is closed. The historical test data is too old and too isolated to inform any current decision. The neighborhood around 6th Street in Tucson remains, and the district continues to operate other elementary schools, but Roskruge itself is not among them. Anyone researching school options in this part of Tucson would need to look at the district’s current enrollment and assignment process, the desegregation plan that shapes school choice, and the list of active schools in the area. This record simply confirms that one school in the Tucson Unified District no longer exists.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 336%

School 36% · District 29% · ▲ 7 pts above district

▼ 8 pts below state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

Grade 438%

School 38% · District 28% · ▲ 10 pts above district

▼ 6 pts below state median · ▼ 8 pts below county median

Grade 561%

School 61% · District 27% · ▲ 34 pts above district

▲ 19 pts above state median · ▲ 20 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 349%

School 49% · District 24% · ▲ 25 pts above district

▲ 9 pts above state median · ▲ 10 pts above county median

Grade 445%

School 45% · District 34% · ▲ 11 pts above district

▼ 2 pts below state median · ▼ 5 pts below county median

Grade 561%

School 61% · District 28% · ▲ 33 pts above district

▲ 20 pts above state median · ▲ 17 pts above county median

Science

Grade 437%

School 37% · district not reported

▼ 19 pts below state median · ▼ 19 pts below county median

This schoolTucson Unified District (4403), same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.