San Tan Foothills High School

Coordinates: 33°08′18″N 111°34′51″W / 33.138311°N 111.580854°W / 33.138311; -111.580854

San Tan Foothills High School is a high school in San Tan Valley, Arizona. It is one of two high schools under the jurisdiction of the Coolidge Unified School District and will become part of the Florence Unified School District on July 1, 2016.

History

San Tan Foothills opened in 2009, around the time of the housing market crash and financial crisis. Designed for 1500 students, into the mid-2010s it was home to 500. The Coolidge district had overbuilt in San Tan Valley; it built Mountain Vista Middle School and San Tan Heights Elementary School. In 2014, the Coolidge district closed Mountain Vista and moved its students and teachers to the San Tan Foothills campus.

In order to save significant costs for Coolidge, and in order to obviate the need for the Florence district to build a third high school overall and second in San Tan Valley, (it operates Poston Butte High School), the Florence Unified School District voted to acquire CUSD's three San Tan Valley schools. The move was approved by voters in both districts in overwhelming margins that November.^[2]

When the Florence Unified School District takes control of the schools on July 1, 2016, it will convert the operating elementary school into a K-8 and use STF to relieve overcrowding at Poston Butte.

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