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    >> The Orme School of Arizona Info

    The Orme School of Arizona

    Mayer, AZ

    HC63 Box 3040, Mayer, AZ 86333

    The Orme School is a college preparatory boarding school located in Mayer, serving grades 8-12. Set on a 26,000 cattle ranch in the temperate high desert of Arizona, Orme's rigorous college preparatory curriculum features Advanced Placement options in all major course areas while being rounded out by a variety of unique electives such as Horsemanship, Sustainability, and Fine Arts. Orme's student body is comprised of some of the best students from around the world, with 20 countries,… More about The Orme School of Arizona

    7 - 12
    Coed
    108 Students
    20 Teachers
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    Verde Valley School

    Sedona, AZ

    3511 Verde Valley School Rd, Sedona, Arizona 86351

    Founded in 1946 by Hamilton and Barbara Warren, Verde Valley School, located in Sedona, Arizona, is a coeducational boarding and day school for students in grades 9-12. The schools mission is to bring together students from all over the world to live, work, and study. Verde Valley is a smaller school consisting of approximately 120 total students. Having a lower student body allows them… More about Verde Valley School

    9 - 12
    Coed
    100 Students
    30 Teachers

What's Up in Arizona

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This page features a list of boarding schools in Arizona (AZ), USA.

Arizona is a state in the Western United States, grouped in the Southwestern and occasionally Mountain subregions. It is the 6th largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona shares the Four Corners region with Utah to the north, Colorado to the northeast, and New Mexico to the east; its other neighboring states are Nevada and California to the west and the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California to the south and southwest.

Education in Arizona (AZ), USA

The Arizona Department of Education oversees public and boarding schools separated into 220 local school districts. They are operated independently but are governed in most cases by elected county school superintendents.

Arizona Department of Education has an Academic Standards team that oversees the standards for learning for boarding school students in Arizona from K-12. The Academic Standards team measures to work across the state by writing, revising, and implementing the standards with different stakeholders. This team provides professional learning opportunities, resources, guidance, and technical assistance to build educator and caregiver capacity in best practices across the K-12 continuum. The Academic Standards team leads state-level work related to early childhood, literacy, computer science, educational technology, English Language Arts, history and social sciences, math, science, and native languages.

The Arizona State Board is responsible for setting statewide minimum requirements for graduation from high school boarding schools. Districts and boarding schools may, at their discretion, establish graduation credit requirements for their students in addition to the statewide requirements. The statewide minimum course of study requires boarding school students to take a minimum of 22 credits.

With its warm weather and beautiful scenery, Arizona is an ideal place for boarding school students to receive excellent academics and athletic programs. Arizona is known as a state where people choose to retire, but it’s also gaining a reputation as a state with high-quality boarding schools for students of all ages. With its warm weather and beautiful scenery, Arizona is a place where students attending boarding school not only have many academic and athletic programs from which to choose, but also many chances to enjoy the view along the way.

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