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The Mesa Unified School District Is the State’s Largest

The Mesa Unified School District Is the State’s Largest. 72,000 STUDENTS filled Mesa’s 7,372,000* SCHOOL BUILDINGS in (Total Sq. Ft.) 87 SCHOOLS & A VARIETY OF FOCUS PROGRAMS on 1,390 ACRES OF LAND (at school sites) 200 SQUARE MILES . .

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The Mesa Unified School District Is the State’s Largest

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  1. 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 OF FOCUS PROGRAMS on 1,390 ACRES OF LAND (at school sites) 200 SQUARE MILES.

  2. A Menu of Services and Personnel2008-2009 4,600 TEACHERS (includes all certified contract employees) instruct 72,000 STUDENTS with the assistance of 5,700 OTHER WORKERS who support instruction by offering a variety of services (includes all classified staff, contract and non-contract)

  3. A Menu of Services and Personnel2008-2009 44,587 MEALS served daily 8 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 HEALTH ASSISTANTS providing health services.

  4. A Menu of Services and Personnel2008-2009 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 420 EMPLOYEES providing a clean healthy 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) keeping schools in good repair

  5. GRADUATESCLASS OF 2008 Dobson 645 Mesa High 765 Mountain View 820 Red Mountain 816 Skyline 527 Westwood 583 EVA 90 Total Graduates 4,292

  6. $41,803,837In Scholarships Offered to 1,121 graduating seniors

  7. 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+.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. ENROLLMENT

  14. ATHLETICS State Championships* Baseball 7 Basketball 25 Football 23 Golf 14 Track 32 Wrestling 5 Softball 4 Volleyball 4 Cross Country 13 Gymnastics 7 Soccer 2 Tennis 6 Swimming & Diving 10 *Represents both Boys and Girls from 1908 to present

  15. ATHLETICS 5,635 Games, Matches and Meets were held for students’ participation in sports events 7,014 Students participated in interscholastic athletics

  16. 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 Finalists Dobson 8 Mountain View 5 Red Mountain 3 Skyline 2

  17. 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.

  18. 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

  19. 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* MathWriting MPS 526 554 506 Arizona 519 525 502 National 502 515 494 *Formerly Verbal

  20. ACT COMPOSITE SCORES1990-1991 through 2006-2007

  21. SAT Critical Reading(Formerly Verbal) Trends1995-1996 through 2006-2007

  22. SAT Math Trends1995-1996 through 2006-2007

  23. SAT Writing2005-2006 through 2006-2007

  24. ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGESERVING 11,500 STUDENTSREPRESENTING 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)

  25. ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGESERVING 11,500 STUDENTSREPRESENTING 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

  26. ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGESERVING 11,500 STUDENTSREPRESENTING 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

  27. 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.

  28. 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.

  29. 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

  30. 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

  31. TEACHERS ARE ASSISTED BYTHESE RESOURCES ANDDEPARTMENTS: 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

  32. 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

  33. 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

  34. 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

  35. 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

  36. ATHLETICSSkyline High School State Championships Track - Girls 2006, 2007 Track – Boys 2006 Swimming – Boys 2006

  37. 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

  38. 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

  39. Mesa Union High School District #207Established December 26, 1907 Elementary Feeder Districts: LehiJordanAlmaMesaNephiHighland

  40. Elementary Schools DistrictsConsolidated intoMesa Elementary District #4July 1946 These Districts Included: Mesa Elementary School District Alma Elementary School District Jordan Elementary School District Lehi Elementary School District

  41. 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.

  42. MESA SUPERINTENDENTS 1907- 1909 John Loper, Both Mesa and Mesa HS Districts (Two School1909-1914 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 1953-1967 Rulon T. Shepherd (One School Board/Two Districts) 1967-1984 George Smith 1984-1999 Jim Zaharis 1999-2000 Dale Frederick 2000-Present Debra Duvall

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