About Our School

Cavett is committed to academic excellence and bringing parents and the wider community together to work toward educational, personal and social goals. The staff at Cavett provides support and encouragement to each student and works to make the school a safe, warm environment where children are comfortable learning.

Cavett is an Innovation Zone school, which means it is part of a Tucson Unified program designed to transform schools to become models for education in the district and the state. The program is a partnership with the University of Virginia schools of leadership and education, and provides intensive training to teachers and administrators.

The mission at Cavett is to promote a nurturing and enriching environment where every student develops the skills, abilities and attitudes necessary to achieve academic success and social responsibility in order to soar in the 21st Century.

Ms. Cavett was born in Holly Grove, Arkansas, and decided to become a teacher at the age of 10. When she was 11 years old, she taught neighborhood preschool children to read and write. When the group entered school it was found that Ms. Cavett's teaching had been so thorough the young students skipped first grade.

Ms. Cavett later taught drama at Tucson High School from 1924 until her retirement in 1946. At the time of her retirement, Superintendent Morrow said of her, "She devoted her heart, soul and her life to working with young people and her influence on them will be felt wherever they go."