Beaver Dam High School is a secondary school located in

Beaver Dam, Arizona Beaver Dam is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Mohave County, Arizona, United States, that is located in the Arizona Strip region and was settled in 1863. It is located along Interstate 15 approximately northeast o ...

. The school serves grades seven through twelve. It is part of the

Littlefield Unified School District Littlefield Unified School District is a PK-12 grade school district headquartered in Beaver Dam, Arizona. Littlefield Unified's District covers a large geographical area in Mohave County, located in the extreme northwest corner of the state. The ...

and a member of the

Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association The Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association (NIAA) is the governing body of athletic programs for high schools in the state of Nevada. In addition, five schools in the state of California (Coleville, Needles, North Tahoe, South Tahoe, and Tru ...

instead of

Arizona Interscholastic Association The Arizona Interscholastic Association (AIA) is one of two regulatory bodies for high school athletics and activities in the state of Arizona. It comprises all of the state's public district high schools (except Ajo High School, Beaver Dam High S ...

due to insufficient transportation to other places in

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History

Beaver Dam High School was first proposed at a Governing Board meeting in 2001. At the time, high school students from

attended

Virgin Valley High School Virgin Valley High School is a high school in Mesquite, Nevada under the jurisdiction of the Clark County School District. Up until the opening of Beaver Dam High School in Beaver Dam, Arizona in the fall of 2004, high school students from the Li ...

across the state line in

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. The school first opened its doors for the 2004–2005 school year. The Governing Board members at the time were Tammy Giebink, Cheryl Graham and Shannon Hartley. The Superintendent was Dr. Jose L. Trujillo. The first year the school housed only grades nine through eleven; seniors still attended high school at Virgin Valley High School. The following school year, 2005–2006, the school housed all four grades, 9–12.

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Littlefield Unified School District No. 9
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