Sunrise Mountain High School - Peoria, Arizona/AZ

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Sunrise Mountain High School

21200 N 83rd Ave, Peoria, AZ, 85382-2436 -

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Definition of Terms

Sunrise Mountain High School

School Level

High school

Grades Offered

Grades 9 - 12

County

Maricopa County, AZ

Students & Faculty

Total Students

2432 students

% Male / % Female

52% / 48%

Total Classroom Teachers

113 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 9 - 661 students

Grade 10 - 661 students

Grade 11 - 538 students

Grade 12 - 572 students

This School

(AZ) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:22

1:20

Students by Ethnicity

This School

(AZ) School Average

% American Indian	1%	13%
% Asian	3%	1%
% Hispanic	10%	34%
% Black	3%	5%
% White	82%	47%
% Unknown	1 %	3%

Additional Student Information

This School

(AZ) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

23%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

n/a

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

(AZ) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

Peoria Unified School District

This School's Agency

(AZ) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	37	2
Number of Students Managed	37,773 students	505 students
District Total Revenue	$263,079,000	$3,309,000
District Expenditure	$279,968,000	$2,717,000
District Revenue / Student	$6,965	$6,552
District Expenditure / Student	$7,412	$5,380
District Graduation Rates	89%	50%

Rams volleyball team gaining steam (The Fort Collins Coloradoan)
posted on November 17, 2009 at 12:13:45 pm
CSU's volleyball team won the Mountain West Conference title for the seventh time in 11 years, picked up its first conference player of the week honor and returned to the national rankings.
Sunrise Mountain High School teacher is Librarian of the Year (The Arizona Republic)
posted on November 11, 2009 at 06:45:15 pm
Sunrise Mountain High staffer Karlene Edwards has been a school librarian for 32 years.
No one shows for Peoria Unified School District override forum (The Arizona Republic)
posted on October 24, 2009 at 03:28:10 pm
Fate of $18 million in funding at stake in Nov. 3 election.
1 resident shows to discuss $18M Peoria Unified override (The Arizona Republic)
posted on October 2, 2009 at 04:04:57 pm
The school district is seeking a renewal of its maintenance and operations budget override.
Police ID gunman who attacked woman, killed himself in Peoria (The Arizona Republic)
posted on September 15, 2009 at 11:54:44 pm
Police: Timothy E. Lasby, 48 entered Glo Tanning in Peoria and sexually assaulted an employee.

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Sunrise Mountain High School is located in Peoria, Arizona. It is part of the Peoria Unified School District #11. SMHS was established in 1996, and the school has maintained an Excelling academic status for the last three years. The SMHS sports teams and marching band are called the Mustangs. This led to the creation of the school mascots, Max and Mollie, the Mustangs. SMHS is considered an overpopulated school in relation to the rest of the PUSD #11 high schools. This overpopulation became such a problem that a former elementary school was used as a host to several freshmen classes. The slang term for this campus was "Frosh Island". Between each period a bus would shuttle students between "Frosh Island," and the main campus so that classes such as physical education, band, advanced science, and choir could be attended by freshman. The use of this campus was discontinued by SMHS following the end of the 2005-2006 school year. The overpopulation problem was slightly relieved by the creation of Liberty High School within a close proximity of SMHS. During the 2008-2009 school year, SMHS will have over 1700 students, a significant reduction when compared with the 2400 that attended in 2005-2006.
Music
SMHS has a marching band, concert band and Jazz band directed by Chris Vail. The Jazz Band competes yearly in the Northern Arizona University jazz competition. The strings program is directed by Jacob Boyd, who also plays electric guitar in the rock band Breaking Down, and teaches strings to grades 5-8 at Coyote Hills and Desert Harbor (formerly at Apache). Since 2006 Breaking Down has performed annual concerts with the school strings ensemble in the school auditorium. Numerous members of local bands have attended SMHS.
Clubs
SMHS offers many clubs for various activities. They include: DECA, FBLA, FCCLA, HOSA, JSA, CCC, Newspaper club, Yearbook club, German club, Spanish Club, Science club, Speech and Debate, NHS, and Skills USA. There have been many recent clubs getting started such as the book club, which was formed in 2007-2008. Also, the first club to be formed in the 2008-2009 school year is the Croquet Club which was started by a couple of sophomores. Another prominate club that has been around since the formation of the class, but was little known, is the Media Club.
Sports
SMHS has many various types of sports in which people can try out depending on the season. Sunrise Mountain Mustangs have had a long standing rivalry between fellow Peoria District school, Centennial Coyotes.
Fall:
Football [2](Female Football team- Powderpuff)
Volleyball [3]
Cross Country and Female
Golf and Female
Swim and Female
Winter:
Basketball and Female
Soccer and Female
Wrestling and Female
Spring:
Boy's Baseball [4]
Girl's Softball [5]
Tennis and Female
Track and Female
Volleyball [6]

Feeder Schools
All of the following are K-8 schools:
Apache

Coyote Hills

Frontier

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