Canyon View High School (Arizona)
| Canyon View High School | |
|---|---|
| Address | |
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6024 N. Perryville Road , 85355 | |
| Coordinates | 33°31′26″N 112°27′52″W / 33.523993°N 112.464337°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public high school |
| Opened | August 6, 2018[1] |
| School district | Agua Fria Union High School District |
| Principal | Phillip Nowlin |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 970 (grades 9 and 10) |
| Color(s) | Blue, black |
| Mascot | Jaguars |
| Website | www |
Canyon View High School is a high school in Waddell, Arizona, the fifth public high school operated by the Agua Fria Union High School District.
History
On January 12, 2017,[2] ground was broken for the first new high school in Waddell in a decade.[3] The school, unnamed at groundbreaking, would relieve overcrowding at two other AFUHSD high schools, where class sizes were going over 40 students in some cases.[2] Canyon View cost $78 million to build at a lower cost per square foot than the district's four other schools;[1] $33 million of the total came from the Arizona School Facilities Board, with the remainder of the cost being financed by a voter-approved bond.[4]
DLR Group designed the school complex, which features a variety of informal settings. Teachers do not have fixed classrooms; classes rotate through the school's different spaces, with glass walls separating classrooms.[1] Another feature of the campus is an accelerator, in a separate building, that is open to the community and also houses an auditorium and the school's broadcast studio and maker space.[1]
The school facility is also the subject of an experiment being conducted by DLR on bio-phase change materials to reduce energy consumption and cooling costs. One of the two 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m2) buildings is outfitted with bio-PCM materials, while the other is not to serve as a control.[5]
The design received the Association for Learning Environments' 2019 James D. MacConnell Award for excellence in programming and design.[6]
References
- ^ a b c d Irish, Lisa (October 23, 2018). "District gets international attention for re-thinking what school looks like". AZEdNews. Retrieved August 17, 2019.
- ^ a b Kuhn, Casey (January 13, 2017). "Agua Fria District Breaks Ground On New High School West Of Goodyear". KJZZ. Retrieved August 17, 2019.
- ^ Apodaca, Erica (December 1, 2017). "Waddell's first new high school in a decade will break ground". AZ Big Media. Retrieved August 17, 2019.
- ^ Burks, Steve (November 26, 2018). "Here are the trends shaping Arizona school construction". AZ Big Media. Retrieved August 17, 2019.
- ^ Sundharam, Premnath (February 16, 2018). "Thermal Mass 2.0: Reinventing Energy Design for User Experience". School Construction News. Retrieved August 17, 2019.
- ^ A4LE 2019 MaConnell Award. Retrieved 2019-10-08