Canyon View High School (Arizona)

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Canyon View High School
Address
6024 N. Perryville Road

Waddell
,
Arizona
85355

United States
Coordinates33°31′26″N 112°27′51″W / 33.5240°N 112.4643°W / 33.5240; -112.4643Coordinates: 33°31′26″N 112°27′51″W / 33.5240°N 112.4643°W / 33.5240; -112.4643
Information
TypePublic high school
OpenedAugust 6, 2018[1]
School districtAgua Fria Union High School District
PrincipalPhillip Nowlin
Teaching staff55.40 (FTE)[2]
Grades9–12
Enrollment962 (2019–20)[2]
Student to teacher ratio17.36[2]
Color(s)Royal Blue, Black, White
MascotJaguar
Websitewww.aguafria.org/Domain/1219

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,[3] ground was broken for the first new high school in Waddell in a decade.[4] 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.[3] 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.[5]

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.[6]

The design received the Association for Learning Environments' 2019 James D. MacConnell Award for excellence in programming and design.[7]

References[]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ a b c "Canyon View High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved May 26, 2021.
  3. ^ a b Kuhn, Casey (January 13, 2017). "Agua Fria District Breaks Ground On New High School West Of Goodyear". KJZZ. Retrieved August 17, 2019.
  4. ^ Apodaca, Erica (December 1, 2017). "Waddell's first new high school in a decade will break ground". AZ Big Media. Retrieved August 17, 2019.
  5. ^ Burks, Steve (November 26, 2018). "Here are the trends shaping Arizona school construction". AZ Big Media. Retrieved August 17, 2019.
  6. ^ Sundharam, Premnath (February 16, 2018). "Thermal Mass 2.0: Reinventing Energy Design for User Experience". School Construction News. Retrieved August 17, 2019.
  7. ^ A4LE 2019 MaConnell Award. Retrieved 2019-10-08
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