Congress Elementary School District is a
K-8 school district headquartered in
Congress, Arizona
Congress (aka Old Congress) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States. Once a gold-mining center for the Congress Mine and then a ghost town, Congress now serves as a retirement and bedroom community for nearby W ...
. It operates Congress Elementary School.
The district includes the Congress
census-designated place and a portion of the
Yarnell CDP.
The district sends high school students to
Wickenburg High School
Wickenburg High School is a high school in Wickenburg, Arizona under the jurisdiction of the Wickenburg Unified School District. It is double-listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Arizona. The original Colonial Revival high schoo ...
of the
Wickenburg Unified School District
Wickenburg Unified School District #9 (WUSD) is a school district headquartered in Wickenburg, Arizona.
History
In 1997 the question of whether the Wickenburg district and the Congress Elementary School District should merge was put on the ballo ...
.
History
Previously the Congress district did not operate any schools. Students attended Wickenburg USD for all grade levels.
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At one point the Walnut Creek School consolidated into the Congress district.
Congress Elementary School opened in 2001 with all grade levels in elementary and middle school. Its initial enrollment was 110.
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In 2010 the student enrollment was 112. That year the district began the practice of filing lawsuits against parents who had filed multiple requests to make information public, asking to set a condition so only a judge could allow their requests to go through. The district argued that the parents were harassing the district employees. This caused the '']San Francisco Examiner
The ''San Francisco Examiner'' is a newspaper distributed in and around San Francisco, California, and published since 1863.
Once self-dubbed the "Monarch of the Dailies" by then-owner William Randolph Hearst, and flagship of the Hearst Corporat ...
'' to write a critical article about this. Congress Elementary School District v. Warren resulted.
Student performance
In 2015 its AZMerit scores were 77% for mathematics and 66% for English. 80 of its students took the exams.
References
Further reading
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External links
Congress Elementary School District
{{Education in Yavapai County, Arizona
Public K–8 schools in Arizona
School districts in Yavapai County, Arizona