About Our School
Our focus includes creating a safe and welcoming school environment for all families and students.
We partner with Welcoming Schools to create a comprehensive bias-based bullying prevention program that includes LGBTQ+ and gender inclusive professional development training for staff as well as resources specifically designed for educators to support ALL families and students. We believe in an intersectional, anti-racist lens dedicated to actionable policies and practices. We uplift students and families and embrace family, student, and staff diversity.
In addition to our work with Welcoming Schools, we build community partnerships so that families are supported throughout the year in any way that helps support student learning while at school or at home. Though small in size, the school’s professional learning community is a team driven structure that allows staff to tackle big issues in the support of students.
Our middle school students may participate in interscholastic sports, and we compete against other district schools in basketball, volleyball, soccer, and track.
We encourage family and community involvement in our school. Many partnerships exist between the school and the community such as with the Boys and Girls Club, CODAC and the Community Food Bank. In collaboration with the Community Food Bank, we provide a monthly mobile food bank to help families in our community.
We are a Pre-K to 8th grade school.
We are a Title 1 school with a Parent and Child Education (PACE) program for PreK students.
iReady intervention software is used from elementary through the 8th grade for all students to support learning gaps and provide rigorous extensions to those students learning at a faster rate than their peers.
All grade levels use the TUSD FOSS kits for science learning.
Our newly constructed middle school building was completed in 2014!
In 2013, we were able to create a computer lab for Grades K-8.
We become a Verizon Innovative Learning School in 2018, providing all middle school students iPads for their school work while staff engaged in specialized professional development to integrate technology into their lessons.
In 2024 we were awarded a Verizon Innovative Learning Lab where students can engage in STEM lessons ranging from 3D modeling, Virtual Reality, and programming.
All of our students are instructed by highly qualified teachers. Our school counselor works closely with 8th grade students in choosing the high school that best fits their needs and academic endeavors.
Pueblo Gardens Elementary is part of the Pueblo Gardens Neighborhood. The neighborhood was one of the first subdivisions in Tucson to have its own school, park, and shopping center. It was developed starting in 1947 and the school opened in 1951.