The Clifton Unified School District was the school district in

Clifton, Arizona Clifton is a town in and is the county seat of Greenlee County, Arizona, United States, along the San Francisco River. The population of the town was 3,311 at the 2010 census, with a 2018 population estimate of 3,700. It was a place of the Ariz ...

. It contained two schools, Laugharn Elementary School and Clifton High School until the closing of the district in 2010.

Clifton High School

Up until September 2010, it also operated Clifton High School (colors maroon and gold, mascot the Trojans). The state of Arizona hinted it would petition for its closure in late spring, because it was labeled as a "failing school" and not meeting progress benchmarks in federal law and on the

Arizona's Instrument to Measure Standards Arizona's Instrument to Measure Standards (AIMS) was a standardized test administered by the state of Arizona. AIMS was a standards-based assessment aligned with the Arizona Academic Content Standards. In November 2014, the Arizona State Board of ...

statewide exam; it followed through at a meeting in late August 2010. The small high school also lost a science and mathematics teacher (one of its three remaining teachers) when he resigned for health reasons – the school district was unable to allow students to travel to Morenci to take the classes at Morenci Junior/Senior High School, four miles away in nearby

Morenci, Arizona Morenci is a census-designated place (CDP) and company town in Greenlee County, Arizona, United States, and was founded by the Detroit Copper Mining Company of Arizona. The population was 2000 at the 2000 census and 1,489 at the 2010 census. Th ...

. Superintendent Evonne Hanna and the Clifton school board allowed students to begin attending another school via state open enrollment laws, in most all cases Morenci High.

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