The Florence Unified School District is a school district serving grades K-12 in Florence and San Tan Valley, Arizona .
4-461: Florence USD elementary schools serve grades K-8. The district operates three high schools: Florence High School , San Tan Foothills High School , and Poston Butte High School . The district also operates one Alternative School, Mountain Vista Academy, that includes online courses for credit recovery and programs for students with disabilities. This Arizona school-related article
8-552: A cooling cross breeze. The front building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 22, 1987, for its architecture, as well as for its significance as "a well-preserved example of institutional architecture in the early statehood period of Arizona history". The original central entry was filled in, leaving nothing behind the arches. This was the case at the time of the NRHP nomination of this building in
12-617: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Florence High School (Arizona) Florence High School is the high school for the town of Florence, Arizona . It is administered by the Florence Unified School District . Its current front building opened in 1916. It was designed by Lescher & Kibbey , Phoenix architects who "dominated the design of educational buildings in Arizona". The Neoclassical Revival structure incorporates elements of
16-477: The Spanish Revival style popular in the region. A one-story design was chosen, as many students would have traveled several miles on foot or on horseback. The building's orientation helped to keep temperature in the rooms, cooling in the summer and heating in the winter. In addition, the area under the front arches once featured windows and doors that opened at the front and back of the auditorium, creating
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