Flagstaff Unified School District

The Flagstaff Unified School District (FUSD) is a K-12 school district for Flagstaff, Arizona area and neighboring areas. The district has approximately 11,500^[4] students and operates 16 schools; including three high schools (9–12), two middle schools (6–8), four magnet schools (various grades), ten elementary schools, and two alternative programs.

Flagstaff Unified School District
Location
Flagstaff , Coconino County, Arizona United States of America
District information
Grades	PK-12[1]
President	Dorothy Denetsosie Gishie [2]
Superintendent	Michael A. Penca [3]
Asst. superintendent(s)	Kurt Steele Lance Huffman[3]
NCES District ID	0402860[1]
District ID	AZ-4192[1]
Students and staff
Students	9,106 (2021-2022 school year)[1]
Student–teacher ratio	16.36[1]
Colors	Blue and White[2]
Other information
Website	fusd1.org

History

The Sedona-Oak Creek Unified School District opened in 1991, taking territory and assets from FUSD. At the time, Sedona students continued to attend Flagstaff for high school.^[5]

Boundary

The district boundary consists of portions of Coconino County. It includes all of Flagstaff. Additionally, the district includes the following census-designated places: Bellemont, Doney Park, Fort Valley, Kachina Village, Leupp, Mormon Lake, Mountain View Ranches, Mountainaire, Munds Park, Oak Creek Canyon, and Timberline-Fernwood, as well as portions of Blue Ridge and the Coconino County portion of Winslow West.^[6]

Prior to the establishment of Sedona-Oak Creek Unified School District, Flagstaff USD directly included all of Sedona, and took students from the Red Rock school district, which did not operate any schools.^[7]

List of schools

High schools

• Coconino High School
• Flagstaff High School
• Summit High School

Middle schools

• Mount Elden Middle School
• Sinagua Middle School

Alternative schools

• Teenage Parent Program (TAPP)

Magnet schools

• Advanced Placement Academy at Flagstaff High School
• Honors Pre-AP Academy at Mount Elden Middle School
• Alpine Academy at Mount Elden Middle School
• Coconino Institute of Technology (located inside of Coconino High School)
• The Middle School Institute of Technology and Engineering, or MIT-e (located inside of Sinagua Middle School)
• Marshall Elementary Arts and Science Magnet
• Puente de Hozho Bilingual Elementary
• Northern Arizona Distance Learning (on-line)

Elementary schools

• Cromer
• DeMiguel
• Killip
• Kinsey
• Knoles
• Leupp
  • Leupp Public School is in Leupp, 45 miles (72 km) northeast of Flagstaff.^[8][9] It is a K-5 elementary school.^[10] As of 2018^[update] all of the students are Native American.^[11] In addition to Leupp its attendance zone includes Birdsprings and Tolani Lake. The sole FUSD school in the Navajo reservation,^[8] it was previously a K-8 school. According to Mitch Strohmann, the public relations official at FUSD, the school, in 2002, had "made some amazing strides in recent years."^[12] Construction on the current campus was scheduled to start in summer 2002. Within the campus, which had a cost of $2.8 million, is a hogan that was dedicated in January 2002. FUSD consulted with the school community on the design of the school.^[12]
• Marshall
  • Before the Kinlani Dormitory (now the Flagstaff Bordertown Dormitory), a Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIE)-contracting dormitory, stopped taking younger students, it sent younger children living there to Marshall Elementary.^[13]
• Puente de Hozho
• Sechrist
• Thomas

Former schools

Closed schools with year of closure:

• Sinagua High School (2010)
• Flagstaff Middle School (2010)
• Christensen Elementary School (2010)
• South Beaver Elementary School (2010)

Flagstaff USD formerly operated Sedona School in Sedona.^[7] That school went to the Sedona-Oak Creek Unified School District.