Poston Butte High School is a

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in the

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. It opened July 20, 2009.

One-to-one computing

Poston Butte High School does not employ textbooks. Instead, the school's one-to-one computing policy provides a laptop to each student in lieu of textbooks. The first school to use one-to-one computing in Arizona was

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, which started doing so in 2005. Florence district officials worked with Empire to implement a similar program at Poston Butte in 2009. After successful implementation at Poston Butte, it was expanded to Florence High School in 2010.

First graduating class

The first class graduated from Poston Butte on May 30, 2012.http://www.trivalleycentral.com/articles/2012/06/07/florence_reminder_blade_tribune/schools_and_education/doc4fcfddf3d72e8566591920.txt It had 253 students.

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