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Scottsdale Unified School District is
Arizona’s Most Excelling School District, with 21 schools
earning the State’s highest rating, Excelling. All
SUSD schools are rated as
Performing, Performing Plus, Highly Performing
or Excelling by the Arizona Department of Education.
The Scottsdale Unified School District has
33 schools serving about 26,000 students. More than 3,000
persons are employed by the district, including about 1,700
teachers. The district celebrated its 100th anniversary in
1996. Its boundaries include most, but not all, of the city
of Scottsdale, almost all of the town of Paradise Valley,
a section of the city of Phoenix and a section of the city
of Tempe.
The Scottsdale Unified School District was founded
in 1896 by Major Winfield Scott, also the founder of the city
of Scottsdale. The first classes were taught by Aliza Bount,
who, for health reasons, moved to Arizona from Illinois with her husband George
and their three children. Classes were
held in their adobe home, which was just south of what is
now Civic Center Plaza and Second Street. Aliza Bount was
paid $40 a month to teach the 8-10 students from the seven
families who resided in Scottsdale at that time.
The District's first bond election was
held May 1, 1909, with 13 citizens voting "yes" and zero citizens
voting "no." The amount of the bond, $5,000, was used to build
our first school, now known as the "Little Red Schoolhouse."
This building, also known at the time as Coronado School,
is a historic site on Scottsdale Mall and now the home of
the Scottsdale
Historical Society.
Today, the District covers 112 square miles.
Our boundaries are not coterminous with city of Scottsdale boundaries.
We serve most of the town of Paradise Valley and parts of Tempe and
Phoenix in addition to most of Scottsdale. The District has about
27,000 students and approximately 1,800 certified and 1,000 classified
employees. We have 5 comprehensive high schools, 7 middle schools,
20 elementary schools, and 1 alternative school.
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