A Message from Our Superintendent

July 10, 2025

Dear BUSD Students, Parents/Caregivers, and Community,

Welcome to the 2025–2026 school year. Throughout the summer, the BUSD team has been planning the upcoming school year to ensure our buildings, buses, and, most importantly, our staff are ready to welcome our students and families.

For the upcoming year, let’s join forces to ensure we get closer in achieving our BUSD Three Year Plan goals below and fulfill our mission of “Developing Healthy, Inspiring, Motivating, Developing, Achieving, Graduates”:

  • Goal 1: Academic Mastery of 70% or Higher
  • Goal 2: 90% Attendance (four absences per quarter is considered chronic absenteeism)
  • Goal 3: Essential 9: Stay Connected
  • Goal 4: Support and Challenge
  • Goal 5: Promote Tohono O’odham Language, Culture, and Traditions

We ask that all parents/caregivers download the ParentVue App on your phone. Through this app, our intention is to empower families in monitoring students’ weekly progress with assignments, assessments, daily attendance, and report cards. For high school families, this app empowers you to monitor if your student is on track to graduate.

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    Additionally, starting in late August, BUSD will release the new transportation app to help families track the bus, inform you when your student has gotten on or off the bus, and notify you of any delays.

    Also in late August, all students will be receiving student ID’s that must be worn daily. The student ID will allow our students to get on the bus, get through the food line, log into devices, and more. Please ensure your child has his/her ID with them. The first ID will be provided by the district, and replacements will be available at schools for $5.

    This year, we had 80% of our students enrolled through our online enrollment system helping us plan more efficiently. Thank you for your collaboration in enrolling your students. We still have some students who need to be enrolled. BUSD will have a late enrollment window starting on Monday, July 28 at 10:00 a.m. There will be no registration on the first two days of school, July 24 and July 25, so that all staff can assist in guiding families and students on those two days.

    I look forward to seeing you all back. Let’s work together and make the new year an extraordinary year.

    Be Brave, Be Bold, Be BUSD!

    Kind Regards, 

    Ruben Diaz

    Mr. Ruben Diaz
    BUSD Superintendent