Wickenburg High School is a high school in

Wickenburg, Arizona Wickenburg is a town in Maricopa and Yavapai counties, Arizona, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the town was 7,474, up from 6,363 in 2010. History The Wickenburg area, along with much of the Southwest, became part of ...

under the jurisdiction 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 ball ...

. It is double-listed on the

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in Arizona. The original

Colonial Revival The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the archi ...

high school and annex were completed in 1925 and 1935, respectively. In 1934, the

Works Progress Administration The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, i ...

-built gymnasium was completed in a Moderne style. It is the town's only WPA building and the larger of two cast-in-place concrete structures in the town; it also is separately listed. The two buildings were put on the NRHP at the same time (July 1986). In 1999, the high school moved to a new building.

Service area

Within Maricopa County, the school district, and therefore Wickenburg High's attendance boundary, includes that county's portion of Wickenburg and sections of Buckeye and Surprise. Within Yavapai County it includes that county's portion of Wickenburg and that county's section of Peoria. - This includes the borders of the former

Walnut Grove Elementary District Walnut Grove Elementary School District #7 was a school district in Yavapai County, Arizona. It operated a school in the Walnut Grove area, then became a sending school district. It served Walnut Grove and Castle Hot Springs. History The school ...

, which has since dissolved, with a portion going to Wickenburg USD.

Congress Elementary School District Congress Elementary School District is a K-8 school district headquartered in Congress, Arizona. It operates Congress Elementary School. The district includes the Congress census-designated place and a portion of the Yarnell CDP. The district s ...

sends high school students to Wickenburg High. Previously students from the

Yarnell Elementary School District Yarnell Elementary School District (YESD) is a school district headquartered in Peeples Valley, Arizona. It has one school, Model Creek School. The school district area includes Peeples Valley and a section of Yarnell. The school has a combined ...

(model Creek School) could select Wickenburg High as an option for high school, but in order to reduce taxes, the Yarnell Elementary district board removed the Wickenburg option in November 2018.

History

During the evacuation period of the

Yarnell Hill Fire The Yarnell Hill Fire was a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona, ignited by dry lightning on June 28, 2013. On June 30, it overran and killed 19 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots. Just one of the hotshots on the crew survived—he was pos ...

, the school was used as an evacuation shelter for the nearby town of Yarnell.

References

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