Mountain Pointe High School - Phoenix, Arizona/AZ

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Mountain Pointe High School

4201 E Knox Rd, Phoenix, AZ, 85044-4701 -

tel: (480)759-8449
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Definition of Terms

Mountain Pointe High School

School Level

High school

Grades Offered

Grades 9 - 12

County

Maricopa County, AZ

Students & Faculty

Total Students

2501 students

% Male / % Female

52% / 48%

Total Classroom Teachers

109 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 9 - 676 students

Grade 10 - 669 students

Grade 11 - 595 students

Grade 12 - 561 students

This School

( AZ ) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:23

1:18

Students by Ethnicity

This School

( AZ ) School Average

% American Indian	2%	9%
% Asian	6%	2%
% Hispanic	19%	37%
% Black	11%	5%
% White	63%	46%

Additional Student Information

This School

( AZ ) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

n/a

41%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

n/a

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

n/a

( AZ ) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

Tempe Union High School District

This School's Agency

( AZ ) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	7	1
Number of Students Managed	13,701 students	320 students
District Total Revenue	$127,406,000	$1,850,000
District Expenditure	$101,162,000	$1,612,000
District Revenue / Student	$9,299	$5,813
District Expenditure / Student	$7,384	$5,034
District Graduation Rates	84%	89%

Mountain Pointe High School is a secondary school located in Phoenix, Arizona.
The school was the first of its kind in its area, which experienced huge population growth during the late 1980s. Its first graduating class was the class of 1994. Mountain Pointe High School is part of the Tempe Union High School District and handles grades nine through twelve.
Mountain Pointe is famous in its community for the annual Ahwatukee Bowl, a Friday-night football game against the other High School in the area, Desert Vista. In September 2004, the school’s football team scored a victory against Desert Vista, for the second time in seven years, as Mountain Pointe continued their ruling of Ahwatukee. On that very same night, the school’s football coach, Karl Kiefer, won his 300th career coaching victory, making him the only coach in Arizona to have done so. At the end of the 2005 football season, Coach Kiefer retired after leading his last team to the state playoffs. However, Mountain Pointe suffered a loss that ended their Ahwatukee Bowl winning streak in 2006.
Mountain Pointe’s athletic program is also among the best in the state of Arizona, as its athletic teams often compete in region and state finals. The school's athletic accomplishments include 77 region championships, 17 state runner-ups and 19 state championships. They have been recognized as the state's outstanding girls athletic program in 1996-97, Tempe's outstanding athletic program each year from 1994 through 2002 and Arizona's outstanding 5A athletic program in 1995-96 and 1997-98. The awards that they pride themselves in the most is the H.A. Hendrickson Award. This annual award recognizes the 5A school with the greatest combined performance in music, speech and athletics. They have garnered four such awards in 1995-96, 1996-97, 1999-2000 and 2001-2002. Also in 2006, one of their girl soccer players, Alexandra Elston, earned the Gatorade Player of the Year award.
Recently, the school received some negative press coverage over a cheating scandal that was eventually reenacted on an MTV program called High School Stories (see Sunil Gopal). They have also received some negative press coverage over the suspension of six varsity football players, including star running back Michael Moore, due to alcohol consumption the night of their Homecoming dance. The school also had to endure lawsuits over decisions made by the administration over the years, most of which received some form of publicity in Phoenix.
On a lighter note, the school is known to carry the highest number of international foreign exchange students in its metropolitan vicinity. In fact, it is home to roughly 43% of the city's incoming transfer students from Europe. Several have gone on to successfully complete the four-year school curriculum, collecting international awards.
Furthermore, Mountain Pointe is home to a large number of prominent clubs and community activities, including: Drama/Theater, Foreign Language Honor Society, Kiwanis Key Club International, the ambiguous yet ambitious "Barbecue/Cowboy Club" (sponsored by Biology Department teacher Terry Cochran), and the newly sponsored Skeet Club. Over the years, the clubs offered on this campus have grown in popularity, thus granting students access to community service, social diversity, and team-building integrity.
Yet, despite the negative coverage, the school remains wildly popular with parents around Phoenix, who have been complaining about overpopulation for years. Popularity stems particularly from to its scheduling policies that allows students to remain in a class for longer periods of time (block scheduling).They have received numerous awards including: Business Week Award for instructional innovation in Character Education.
Redbook Magazine best school in the America's Best School Competition.
A+ finalist for the state of Arizona for 4 years.
Hascal Henshaw Award for the most successful athletic program in the district seven years. Earl McUllar Award four years for the most successful athletic program in the state.
Tony Komadina Award for the best girls' athletic program in the state.
H.A. Hendrickson Award of excellence three years for the Arizona's most outstanding 4A/5A school in overall interscholastic competition.
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About This Zip Code (85044)

School Zip (85044)

(AZ) State Average

Population (Approximate)

39,892 people

5,007,435 people

% (age 25+) w/College Degree

54%

25%

Population Average Age

34 years old

34.2 years old

Average Household size

2.4 persons

2.5 persons

Median Household Income

$60,095

$40,466

Avg. # of Rooms in Household

5.3 rooms

4.9 rooms

Median Age of Housing Structure

19 years old

29 years old

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% Owning / % Renting

63% / 37%

63% / 37%

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