The Mesa Unified School DistrictIs the State’s Largest
72,000 STUDENTS filled Mesa’s
7,372,000* SCHOOL BUILDINGS in(Total Sq. Ft.)
87 SCHOOLS & A VARIETY OFFOCUS PROGRAMS on
1,390 ACRES OF LAND (at school sites)
200 SQUARE MILES.
A Menu of Services and Personnel2008-2009
4,600 TEACHERS (includes all certified contract employees)instruct
72,000 STUDENTS with theassistance of
5,700 OTHER WORKERS who support instruction by offering a variety of services (includesall classified staff, contract andnon-contract)
A Menu of Services and Personnel2008-2009
44,587 MEALS served daily8 million per year
1,010 FOOD SERVICES EMPLOYEES(includes 504 student employees)
46% FREE AND REDUCED LUNCH(Based on Elementary Schools
enrollment)
130 NURSES AND HEALTHASSISTANTSproviding health services.
A Menu of Services and Personnel2008-2009
420 EMPLOYEES providing a cleanhealthy classroom environment
67 EMPLOYEES caring for 1,366 ACRES of grass, athletic fields &
courts 138 EMPLOYEES (Plumbers,
electricians, carpenters, painters, refrigeration technicians and other maintenance people) keepingschools in good repair
26 MECHANICS (plus 38 staff members) maintaining approximately
471 BUSES 735 BUS DRIVERS and other transportation
staff 31,000 MILES per day transporting 20,000 STUDENTS per day and 7,500 FIELD trips per year 463 VEHICLES, operations work trucks,
Food and Nutrition delivery trucks, security vehicles
GRADUATESCLASS OF 2008
Dobson 645
Mesa High 765
Mountain View 820
Red Mountain 816
Skyline 527
Westwood 583
EVA 90
Total Graduates 4,292
$41,803,837
In Scholarships
Offered to 1,121 graduating seniors
Points of Pride
Arizona Commission for Postsecondary Education recognized the district’s biotechnology program with the Pathways to Higher Education Award.
We the People Team won the Arizona State Championship for the 11th time in a dozen years. The team won the national championship in 2002 and has placed among the top five nationally several times.
Standard & Poor’s upgrade the district’s bond rating to AA- from A+.
Points of Pride
Debra Duvall was named 2008 Arizona Superintendent of the Year by the Arizona School Administrators Association. Irene Frklich has been selected to receive the Distinguished Administrator Award for the Educational Services Division with the Arizona Schools Administrators. Fredi Buffmire received the award for the elementary division.
Mary Ann Price, principal of Roosevelt Elementary Schools, was awarded the Mesa Professional Educators award in recognition of outstanding education leadership for 2007.
Dr. Cindy Gardner, Carson Junior High band director, received the Arizona State University Music Mentor Teacher Award.
Points of Pride
The district received a $1 million Teaching American History grant.
Intel Corporation gave a $40,000 grant to the Mesa Academy for Advanced Studies for a pilot to integrate technology training, science and mathematics. The Academy will be used as a training facility to model these teaching techniques.
Las Sendas Elementary will be presented with an award by the United Food Bank for having donated the most food of all Mesa Elementary Schools - 3,000 pounds more than any other Mesa elementary school.
Arizona Commission for Postsecondary Education recognized the district’s biotechnology program with the Pathways to Higher Education Award.
Points of Pride
U.S. News and World Report named Dobson, Mesa, Mountain View, Red Mountain and Skyline in its “Best High Schools 2008 Search.”
America’s Promise Alliance named the district as No. 1 in graduation rates among the nation’s 50 largest cities.
Three students in the top 10 of the Maricopa County Regional spelling bee.
Stapley Junior High’s National Academic League team took second place in the national championship.
Crossroads won one of the three awards at the Model United Nations for best festival of nations.
Points of Pride
Franklin Northeast received the 2007 No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon Schools Award.
Lehi Elementary recently received a grant from the Friends of the Southwest Regional Library. Lehi received $3,000 towards new books, with emphasis on non-fiction books - an area of interest for Lehi students. They also donated books for use in our new and used book sale to support the Lehi Library program. Rosanne Perry, Lehi Media Specialist was the recipient of the grant.
Falcon Hill Elementary was a McDonald’s Readers Are Leaders Award Winner and received a $1,000 grant to enhance their school library book collection.
Points of Pride
Implemented districtwide emergency management program with training for site teams using Connect-ED phone notification system and Rapid Responder planning.
Implemented the Acuity and Turn Leaf programs
Intel Corporation gave a $40,000 grant to the Mesa Academy for Advanced Studies for a pilot to integrate technology training, science and mathematics. The Academy will be used as a training facility to model these teaching techniques.
Co-sponsored Latino Town Hall with Mesa Community College and the Mesa Association of Hispanic Citizens.
Qwest Foundation donates $5,000 to the Mesa Arts Center for students at Lowell Elementary to pilot a program that will integrate arts into reading and social studies lessons.
ENROLLMENT
TOTAL TOTAL
YEAR ENROLLMENT YEAR ENROLLMENT
1945 3,429 1996 70,318
1950 6,208 1997 70,000
1955 8,933 1997 70,793
1960 12,171 1999 72,125
1965 17,673 2000 73,738
1970 22,590 2001 73,981
1975 31,266 2002 47,507
1980 38,142 2003 47,737
1985 51,321 2004 74,916
1990 63,063 2005 71,851
1991 64,455 2006 74039
1992 65,952 2007 72,523
1993 67,488 2008 72,000
1995 70,098
ATHLETICS
State Championships*
Baseball 7 Basketball 25Football 23 Golf 14Track 32 Wrestling 5Softball 4 Volleyball 4Cross Country 13 Gymnastics 7Soccer 2 Tennis 6Swimming & Diving 10
*Represents both Boys and Girls from 1908 to present
ATHLETICS
5,635 Games, Matches and Meets were held for students’ participation in sports events
7,014 Students participated in interscholastic athletics
NATIONAL MERIT
“Each year a total of some 55,000 high school students are honored in the National Merit Program and the National Achievement Program and more than 10,500 of the most outstanding participants receive scholarships worth a total of $50 million for college undergraduate study.” -- National Merit Scholarship Corporation
2007-2008 National Merit FinalistsDobson 8Mountain View 5Red Mountain 3Skyline 2
PERFORMING ARTS
Mesa ninth through twelfth grade music students earned 86 (43 percent) choral positions, 22 (18.4 percent) band position and 18 (16 percent) orchestra positions, including winds, percussion and strings in the 2007 All-State Music Festival of Honor. Mesa students led All-State by holding 26 percent of the total positions.
PERFORMING ARTS
8,933 Number of students who participate in elementary band and orchestra on a weekly basis
3,702 Number of students who participate in junior high band, orchestra, and chorus on a weekly basis
551 Number of students who participate in junior high guitar, theory, harp and steel drum programs on a weekly basis
2,275 Number of students who participate in high school band, orchestra, and chorus on a weekly basis
410 Number of students who participate in high school guitar, theory, harp and steel drum programs on a weekly basis
15,871 Total number of students who participate in instrumental, vocal or other music classes on a weekly basis
ACT and SAT
With an average composite score of 23.6 on the ACT, Mesa students (2007 graduating class) scored well above state (21.8) and national (21.2) averages
On the SAT, Mesa Public Schools Class of 2007 outperformed the previous class, as well as the state and nation as follows:
CriticalReading* Math Writing
MPS 526 554 506Arizona 519 525 502National 502 515 494
*Formerly Verbal
ACT COMPOSITE SCORES1990-1991 through 2006-2007
19.019.520.020.521.021.522.022.523.023.524.0
1990
-91
1991
-92
1992
-93
1993
-94
1994
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1995
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1996
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1997
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1998
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1999
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2000
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2001
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2002
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2003
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2004
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2005
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2006
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7Mesa Arizona National
SAT Critical Reading(Formerly Verbal) Trends
1995-1996 through 2006-2007
SAT - Critical Reading
480490500510520530540550
1995
-199
6
1996
-199
7
1997
-199
8
1998
-109
9
1999
-200
0
2000
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2001
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2002
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2003
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2004
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2005
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2006
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District Arizona National
SAT Math Trends1995-1996 through 2006-2007
SAT Math
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1995
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1996
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1997
-98
1998
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1999
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2000
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2001
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2002
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2003
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2004
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2005
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2006
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District Arizona National
SAT Writing2005-2006 through 2006-2007
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485 490 495 500 505 510
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Arizona
National
SAT - Writing
2005-2006 2006-2007
ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGESERVING 11,500 STUDENTS
REPRESENTING
Countries: 66 (e.g.., Syria, Italy, Thailand)
Languages: 50 (e.g.., Croation, Spanish, Taiwanese)
Hispanic: 18 (e.g., Brazil, Mexico)
Native American: 6 (e.g.., Apache, Pima)
ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGESERVING 11,500 STUDENTS
REPRESENTING
Countries:
American Soma Honduras PhillipinesArgentina Hungary PolandBahamas India Puerto RicoBolivia Iran RomaniaBosnia Iraq RussiaBrazil Italy Saudi ArabiaBulgaria Japan SerbiaCamaroon Kazanstan South AfricaCambodia Kenya South KoreaCanada Kuwait SpainChile Kyrgyzstan Sri LankaChina Latvia SudanColumbia Lebanon SwedenCosta Rica Lithuania SyriaCuba Melaysia TaiwanEgypt Mexico ThailandEl Salvador Microneisa TongaEngland Nepal TurkeyEquador Netherlands UgandaEthiopia New Zealand UkraineFrance Nicaragu United Arab EmiratesGermany North Korea UzbekistanGhana Oman VenezuelaGreenland Pakistan VietnamGuam Panama ZaireGuatemala Paraguay ZambabweHaiti Peru Zambia
ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGESERVING 11,500 STUDENTS
REPRESENTING
Languages:
Afrikaans Filipino RussianAkan French SamaliAmharic German SamoanArabic Gujarati Serbo-CroatianArmenian Hungarian ShonaBahasa Italian SpanishBangia Japanese SundaBengali Kazahn SwahleiBerber Korean SwedishBosnian Kurdis TaglogBulgarian Kyrgyz TahiCambodian Laotian TaiwaneseChamerro Latvian TonganChinese/Cantonese Lebanese TurkishChinese/Mandarin Mayan UrduCreole Persian UzbekCroatian Polish VietnameseFarsi Romanian
MPS DROPOUT RATE
The MPS dropout rate for grades 7-12 was 2.99 percent and grades 9-12 was 3.66 percent in 2006-2007. This is well below state and national dropout rates.
ADVANCED PLACEMENT
Last spring, 1,192 students took 2,169 AP exams and scored high enough on 81.7 percent of the tests to qualify for college credit.
Students performance on the AP exams means a savings of thousands of dollars in college expenses.
ALTERNATIVE LEARNING PROGRAMS
Focus Schools
Crossroads
East Mesa Early Childhood Education Center
McKellips Middle School
Power Middle School
Riverview High School
S.H.A.R.P.
Sundown High School
Superstition High School
ALTERNATIVE LEARNING PROGRAMS
Choice Programs and Schools
Biotechnology AcademyEagleridgeEast Valley Academy HighFranklin (Basic) Elementary Schools (four campuses)Health Science High SchoolsHighland Arts Integrated Program HomeboundK-12 International Baccalaureate ProgrammeMesa Academy for Advanced StudiesMesa Distance Learning ProgramMontessori Programs (three campuses)Sunridge Learning CenterWorld Studies Academy
TEACHERS ARE ASSISTED BYTHESE RESOURCES AND
DEPARTMENTS:
Creative Arts Special Education
Basic Skills Psychological Services
Science Guidance Services
Social Studies Summer School
Athletics, K-12 P.E. Performing Arts
Community Education Career and Technical Education
Title I Parent University
Math Homework Hotline English Language Acquisition
Extended Learning/Advanced Placement
ATHLETICSDobson High School State Championships
Cross Country – Boys 1997
Swimming & Diving – Boys 1987
Swimming & Diving – Girls 1987
Football 1987
Softball 1990
Track – Boys 1991
Tennis – Boys 1995
Soccer – Boys 1999
Basketball – Boys 1997
Golf – Boys 2003
ATHLETICSMesa High School State Championships
Baseball 1927, 1947, 1953, 1957, 1958
Basketball – Boys 1917, 1918, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1933, 1936, 1946, 1950, 1951, 1988, 2004
Football 1928, 1933, 1946, 1947, 1950, 1956, 1958, 1960, 1963, 1990, 1992
Golf` 1957, 1979
Track – Boys 1950, 1952, 1962, 1982, 1988
Wrestling 1977, 2006, 2007
Softball 1988
Tennis – Boys 1950, 1951, 1952
ATHLETICSMountain View High School State Championships
Basketball – Girls 1988, 1998
Basketball – Boys 1987, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
Football 1978, 1983, 1986, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2002
Volleyball 1984, 1988, 1999
Gymnastics – Girls 1986, 1987
Golf – Boys 1987, 1991, 1992
Cross-Country – Boys 1987, 1991, 1992
Tennis – Boys 1988
Baseball 1990, 1998
Track – Boys 1994, 2000, 2003, 2004
Track – Girls 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997
Swimming – Girls 1998
Wrestling 2000
ATHLETICSRed Mountain High School State Championships
Cross-Country – Girls 1991
Track – Girls 1992, 1996
Golf – Boys 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
Wrestling 1994
Football 2001
Softball 2006
Tennis – Boys 2005
Basketball – Girls 2007
ATHLETICSSkyline High School State Championships
Track - Girls 2006, 2007
Track – Boys 2006
Swimming – Boys 2006
ATHLETICSWestwood High School State Championships
Cross-Country – Boys 1964, 1967, 1983, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996
Football 1964, 1988
Gymnastics – Girls 1976
Swimming – Boys 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1975, 1976
Track – Boys 1965, 1969, 1973, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1998, 1999
Track – Girls 1976, 1977, 1987, 1988, 1989
Volleyball – Girls 1993
Softball 1982
SCHOOL DISTRICTSESTABLISHED
1879 Lehi Elementary School District
1882 Mesa Elementary School District
1885 Alma Elementary School District
18##* Highland Elementary School District
1887 Jordan Elementary School District
1894 Nephi Elementary School District
*Exact date not known
Mesa Union High School District #207Established December 26, 1907
Elementary Feeder Districts:
LehiJordanAlmaMesaNephi
Highland
Elementary Schools DistrictsConsolidated into
Mesa Elementary District #4July 1946
These Districts Included:
Mesa Elementary School District
Alma Elementary School District
Jordan Elementary School District
Lehi Elementary School District
Three MPS
Historical Milestones
1945-1946 Elementary and high school districts consolidated under one administration.
1945-1946 Schools were desegregated.
1951-1952 Changed from a 8-4 organization plan to a 6-3-3 plan and Mesa Junior High was born. Mesa Junior High was called East
Junior High until 1965 when it was renamed to Mesa Junior High.
MESA SUPERINTENDENTS
1907- 1909 John Loper, Both Mesa and Mesa HSDistricts (Two School
1909-1914 H.Q. Robertson, Boards)
1914-1917 G. C. Sherwood
1917-1920 H.E. Matthews
1920-1932 Herman Hendrix
1932-1937 O.P. Greer
1937-1946 Rulon T. Shepherd
1946-1954 Harvey L. Taylor (Mesa combined 1953-1967Rulon T. Shepherd (One School Board/Two Districts)
1967-1984 George Smith
1984-1999 Jim Zaharis
1999-2000 Dale Frederick
2000-Present Debra Duvall