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Sonoran Foothills AZ School District and Schools

May 30, 2017June 6, 2017 Robert Roy Britt reference, sonoran foothills

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sonoran foothills school — Sonoran Foothills residents have their own centrally located K-8 school.

Sonoran Foothills AZ is in Arizona’s Deer Valley Unified School District (DVUSD). The primary K-8 public school serving the students is Sonoran Foothills School, and for grades 9-12 it’s Barry Goldwater High School.

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But Sonoran Foothills residents willing to make a short drive have access to several public charter schools [full list] in North Phoenix:

Adams Traditional Academy (K-8)
Stepping Stones Academy (K-8)
Ridgeline Academy (K-8)
Jefferson Preparatory High School (7-12)
Anthem Prep (K-12)
Caurus Academy (K-8 now, adding high school in fall 2018).

The community is also not far from North Valley Christian Academy (NVCA), a private preK-12 school.

Thanks to Arizona’s open enrollment program, which requires all public schools to allow students to pick the school of their choice if capacity permits, Sonoran Foothills residents can seek to enroll students in other nearby K-8 schools or high schools.

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NoPho resident Robert Roy Britt has written for In&Out publications since its inception in 2005. Britt began his journalism career in New Jersey newspapers in the early 1990s. He later became a science writer and was editor-in-chief of the online media sites Space.com and Live Science. He has written four novels. .