Canyon View High School (Arizona)

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.

Canyon View High School
Address
6024 N. Perryville Road

Waddell
,
Arizona
85355

United States
Coordinates33.523993°N 112.464337°W / 33.523993; -112.464337
Information
TypePublic high school
OpenedAugust 6, 2018[1]
School districtAgua Fria Union High School District
PrincipalPhillip Nowlin
Teaching staff27.10 (FTE)[2]
Grades9–12
Enrollment449 (grades 9)(2018-19)[2]
Student to teacher ratio16.57[2]
Color(s)Blue, black
MascotJaguar
Websitewww.aguafria.org/Domain/1219

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. Irish, Lisa (October 23, 2018). "District gets international attention for re-thinking what school looks like". AZEdNews. Retrieved August 17, 2019.
  2. "Canyon View High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
  3. 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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