About Our School

• Offering your child...
  Leadership development
  Hands-on learning
  Ecology focused education
  English language development for grades K-5
  
  From the time students enter to the time they graduate, Manzo Elementary develops the whole student—preparing each child for greater heights of education, achievement and global citizenship.


• At Manzo, we empower children
  to be future leaders. With innovative math and science initiatives and project-based learning, like our hands-on ecology project complete with on-site garden, greenhouse and animal habitat, our students become critical thinkers, problem solvers and lifelong learners.


• Go Manzo.
  The greenest elementary school on the planet — the pride of Tucson Unified.


• Manzo Fast Facts
  •Opened its doors in 1939
  •Founded the Desert Biome Ecology Project in 1994
  •Awarded Best Green School 2012 by the U.S. Green Building Council's Center for Green Schools
  •Named an Environmental Education Success Story by National Environmental Education Week 2013
  •Designated as  A Flagship School by the University of Arizona Community and School Garden Program
  •Collaboratiing with the Biosphere LEO project

 At Manzo, we empower children to be future leaders. With innovative math and science initiatives and project-based learning, like our hands-on ecology project complete with on-site garden, greenhouse and animal habitat, our students become critical thinkers, problem solvers and lifelong learners. From the time students enter to the time they graduate, Manzo Elementary develops the whole student – preparing each child for greater heights of education, achievement and global citizenship. 

GO GREEN.
An award-winning Eco- School named Best Green School 2012 by the U.S. Green Buidling Council's Center for Green Schools. We pride ourselves in teaching our students to not only care for the earth, but also cultivate it by incorporating gardening skills as part of our core curriculum. 

GO HANDS-ON LEARNING. 
An interavtive learning environment intergrating math and science curriculm with an on-site Ecology project. By combining interactive learning with green living, gardening and composting we provide innovative ways to teach and cooperation, problem solving and responsibility. 
GO BILINGUAL EDUCATION 
An educational program that incorporates both English and Spanish languages and gives each student a more global perspective. We prepare our students for global engagement and interaction through this approach, ensuring that each child not only understands and masters material in one language, but two. 

GO FUTURE LEADERS
A foundation of knowledge, experience, confidence and achievement that leads to unlimited opportunity. Our ultimate goal is for each Manzo student to reach their full potential, achieve success and graduate to dive head first into every future opportunities.