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career & technical education, Advanced Placement, before- after-school programs, sports and extracurricular activities for all ages. The district also provides gifted and special education programs. The district is located in 98-square miles of northeast Phoenix and a portion of north Scottsdale. This area extends from 7th Avenue to Pima Road and is generally bordered on the south by Northern Avenue and the north by Jomax Road. With 32,000 students, it is the seventh-largest school district in Arizona.

History

In 1913, local residents opened Sunnyside School on Cactus Road east of 32nd Street. The one-room schoolhouse, which served 21 girls and 13 boys its first year, was the predecessor to the Paradise Valley School District. In 1918, the school moved to a barn located at 32nd Street and Greenway. The building had a wood-burning stove and no indoor plumbing but had an outdoor facility. Due to failure to secure irrigation rights, many families left the area in the 1920s, , resulting in no record of school from 1920 to 1923. In 1930, Edwin Nesbet donated land for a new campus for Sunnyside. Sunnyside continued to be the solo school for the district until the late 1940s, when electricity was made available in the area. Paradise Valley High School was constructed in 1957, which eliminated the need for 10th grade students to attend the

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. That same year, Paradise Valley High School District was formed. To prepare for growth, the district constructed four new schools in the 1960s, thirteen in the 1970s, eleven in the 1980s, ten in the 1990s and nine more since 2000 as of 2020. In July 1976, the separate high school and elementary school districts combined to form the Paradise Valley Unified School District. In 1991, the 1930s Sunnyside campus, which had been expanded in the 1950s, was replaced with Greenway Middle School.

Elementary schools

* Boulder Cree

Est. 1996 * Cactus Vie

Est. 1992 * Campo Bell

Est. 1960 (reconstructed 2019) * Copper Canyo

Est. 1993 * Desert Cov

Est. 1964 (reconstructed 2007) * Desert Shadow

Est. 1972 * Desert Springs Preparator

Est. 1980 (originally known as Acoma Elementary) * Desert Trail

Est. 1996 * Eagle Ridg

Est. 1984 * Echo Mountain Primary (Pre-K-3

Est. 1980 (originally Echo Mountain Elementary K-6) * Echo Mountain Intermediate (4-6

Est. 2002 (constructed 1987 as expansion building for Echo Mountain Elementary) * Firesid

Est. 2012 * Grayhaw

Est. 1998 * Hidden Hill

Est. 1988 * Indian Ben

Est. 1972 * Larkspu

Est. 1960s (reconstructed 2012) * Libert

Est. 1977 (reconstructed 2002-03) * Mercury Min

Est. 1976 * North Ranc

Est. 1987 * Palomino Primary (Pre-K-3

Est. 1970s (reconstructed 1987) * Palomino Intermediate (4-6

Est. 2002 * Pinnacle Peak Preparatory (K-8

Est. 2002 * Quail Ru

Est. 1988 * Roadrunne

Est. 1991 * Sandpipe

Est. 1979 * Sky Crossin

Est. 2021 * Sonoran Sk

Est. 1994 * Sunset Canyo

Est. 1999 * Whispering Win

Est. 1995 * Wildfir

Est. 2006

Middle schools

* Desert Shadow

Est. 1974 * Explorer

Est. 1997 * Greenwa

Est. 1930 as Sunnyside School, current campus built in 1991 * Mountain Trai

Est. 2002 * She

Est. 1970 (reconstructed 1992) * Sunris

Est. 1981 * Vista Verd

Est. 1989

High schools

* Horizon High School (Scottsdale, Arizona), Horizon High School

Est. 1980 *

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Est. 1957 * Pinnacle High School

Est. 2000 * Shadow Mountain High Schoolbr>
Est. 1974

Alternative schools

* Roadrunne

Est. 1960s as Roadrunner Elementary School * Sweetwater Community Schoo

Est. 1979 as Sweetwater Elementary School

K-12 Online school

* PVOnlin

Former schools

* Aire Libre Elementary Est. 1979 (closed 2019) * Arrowhead Elementary Est. 1975 (closed 2019) * Foothills Elementary Est. 1989 (closed 2014) * Gold Dust Elementary (closed 2005) reopened as Cholla Complex * Village Vista Elementary Est. 1980 (closed 2013)

District site

Paradise Valley Unified School District

References

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