Scottsdale Schools

Scottsdale is served by six independent school districts, several charter schools and a host of private schools, both secular and religious.

The school districts serving Scottsdale are:

Scottsdale Unified

Cave Creek Unified

Paradise Valley Unified

In addition, a few students attend the Phoenix Union Districts' Camelback High School and Balsz Elementary Districts' Orangedale School.

The following table lists various statistics for the school districts serving Scottsdale.

School District	Students	Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Spending per Student
Scottsdale	25,763	1,547	16.7	$4,569
Cave Creek	2,965	183	16.2	$4,902
Paradise Valley	35,000	1,800	19.4	$4,286

The Scottsdale schools are, generally, very strong. The following table shows the results from the 1998 Stanford Achievement Tests.

	Grade	Reading	Math	Language	All	Average SAT Score % Taking Exam
State	10 7 4	42 52 42	47 53 47	43 52 43	46 52 46	1045 29%
Scottsdale	10 7 4	61 71 73	64 71 72	59 72 65	62 71 71	1069 61.5%
Cave Creek	10 7 4	53 76 76	65 68 74	55 76 68	58 71 73	1088 26%
Paradise Valley	10 7 4	50 67 67	53 71 63	50 69 59	53 68 64	1062 43%
Camelback	10	32	39	32	36	993 20%
Fountain Hills	10 7 4	60 68 73	53 70 69	56 66 63	58 67 70	N/A
Orangedale	7 4	36 33	47 35	37 32	41 31	N/A

Scottsdale and Paradise Valley Private Schools
Camelback Christian School 3900 East Stanford Paradise Valley 85253 Phone: (602) 957-0215 No FAX K	Camelback Desert School 6050 North Invergordon Road Paradise Valley 85253 Phone: (602) 948-7520 FAX: (602) 998-5664 Pre-K-8
Devereux of Arizona 6436 East Sweetwater Scottsdale 85254 Phone: (602) 998-2920 FAX: (602) 443-1531 Sp. Ed. 3yrs.-17yrs.	El Dorado Private School 20624 North 76th Street Scottsdale 85255 Phone: (602) 502-6878 K-8
New Way School 1300 North 77th Street (Site) Scottsdale 85257 Phone: (602) 946-9112 FAX: (602) 946-2657 1-12, Sp. Ed., L.D., A.D.D.	New Foundation, The 1200 North 77th Street Scottsdale 85257 Phone: (602) 945-9302 FAX: (602) 945-9308 3-12, Sp. Ed./Reg Ed.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help 3801 Miller Road Scottsdale 85251 Phone: (602) 874-3720 No FAX K-8	North Pointe Prepatory 19980 N 63rd Dr Glendale, AZ 85308 7-12 grades
Phoenix Country Day School 3901 East Stanford Drive Paradise Valley 85253 Phone: (602) 955-8200 FAX: (602) 955-1286 K-12	Rancho Solano Schools 5656 East Greenway Road Scottsdale 85254 Phone: (602) 996-7002 No FAX K-8
Shepherd of the Desert Lutheran School 9590 E. Shea Blvd. Scottsdale, AZ 85260 Phone: (480) 860-1188 x6 Pre-8
St. Daniel the Prophet School 7923 East Latham Scottsdale 85257 Phone: (602) 949-8034 K-8	Tesseract 4800 East Doubletree Ranch Road Paradise Valley 85253 Phone: (602) 991-1770 FAX: (602) 991-1954 K-8
The Marion Burton School/ The New Foundation P. O. Box 3828 Scottsdale 85271 Phone: (602) 945-3302 Sp. Ed.	Thunderbird Adventist Academy 7410 East Sutton Drive Scottsdale 85260 Phone: (602) 948-3300 FAX: (602) 443-4548 9-12

Scottsdale and Paradise Valley Charter Schools
CASY Country Day School #1 K-4 7214 E. Jenan Dr. Scottsdale, AZ 85260 (602) 951-3190	CASY Country Day School #2 K-4 9350 E. Cactus Scottsdale, AZ 85260 (602) 661-1930
Desert Eagle Secondary School 9-12 3191 N. Longmore. Scottsdale, AZ 85256 (602) 874-8335	Dimensions Academy K-6 To be determined (602) 515-2220
Edison Academy of Science and Technology* 6-8 To be determined (602) 992-6910	EduPreneurship Student Center K-8 1201 N. 85th Pl Scottsdale, AZ 85257 (602) 990-2475
Gan Yeladeem: The Looking Glass School K-8 15030 North 64th Street Scottsdale, AZ 85254 (602) 922-7236	Kachina Country Day School #2 (Kachina School for Arts & Sciences) 9-12 8620 East McDonald Dr. Scottsdale, AZ 85251 (602) 922-8751
Montessori Day Public Schools Chartered K-9 6239 East Bell Road Scottsdale, AZ 85254 (602) 596-7922	New School for the Arts 9-12 7475 E. McDowell Road Scottsdale, AZ 85257
Scottsdale Horizons - Main K-8 7425 E. Culver Scottsdale, AZ 85257 (602) 990-7223	Scottsdale Institute for the Arts 9-12 To be determined (602) 254-9348
Villa Montessori K-3 2928 N. 67th Place Scottsdale, AZ 85253 (602) 945-1121

The Arizona Department of Education is an extensive site that provides much information about the schools and educational system in Scottsdale. The site provides contact information, school report cards, standards and much more.

	Jeff Kalina RE/MAX Excalibur 15160 North Hayden Road Scottsdale, AZ 85260 Direct - (602) 625-4222 jeff@southwestrealestate.com
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