Goodyear High School

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Goodyear High School
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Digital rendering of the high school as it will look upon completion.
Address
Goodyear High School
Van Buren & Cotton Ln/Arizona State Route 303

Goodyear
,
Maricopa County
,
Arizona
85338

United States
Coordinates 33°27′12″N112°25′50″W / 33.45338°N 112.43057°W / 33.45338; -112.43057
Information
School type Public high school
Established2025;1 year's time (2025) (Planned)
StatusUnder Construction
School district Agua Fria Union High School District
SuperintendentMark Yslas
PrincipalJason Linn
Grades 9th (2025-2026, Planned), 9-12 (Planned)
Enrollment450 (2025-2026, Planned), 2000 (Planned)
Color(s)    Navy, Kelly Green, and White
MascotMaverick
Website Goodyear High School

Goodyear High School is an under-construction public high school in Goodyear, Arizona, United States operated by the Agua Fria Union High School District. It is planned to open in 2025-2026 school year as the district's sixth high school, starting with 400 freshman students on a partially complete campus and then gradually expanding both facilities and student population to a full high school. [1] [2]

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History

Site history

Originally, the site of the school held the Phoenix Trotting Park, [1] a failed horse-racing track that opened in 1965, closed in 1966, and sat abandoned until its demolition in 2017.

Planning and construction

Following the growth of the region and resulting increase in student population, the Agua Fria Union High School district was struggling with overcrowding in its schools. [1] [3] Following the passing of the Agua Fria bond in the 2023 Arizona bond election, [4] the district received funding in the range of $145 million [1] to $197 million [5] to address issues including the overcrowding, opting to spend $50 million on the construction of a new sixth campus. [5]

A groundbreaking ceremony was held on the site at the intersection of Cotton Ln and Van Buren in May of 2024 in which the school's name and mascot were announced. In attendance were the school's future first principal and vice principal, Jason Linn and Micaella Butterfield. [3] The school's mascot, the Maverick, was a tribute to a local non-profit, the West Valley Mavericks, [6] while naming the high school after the city was meant to thank voters who approved the bond that allowed for the construction and opening of the school. [1] The school colors will be navy, Kelly green, and white. [7] Similar to the contemporary plan for the district's existing schools for the 2024-2025 school year, [8] it was announced the school will operate on a mixed academic/career-technical model, offering three academies to students with eleven total pathways that students would choose near the end of their freshman year. [9]

Due to the gradual disbursement of the bond, rather than immediately building the full school, the district plans to build the campus in phases as the initial freshman students advance and a new freshman class enters. [1] Phase one will include classrooms for about 400 freshman students, [1] [2] sports facilities, a theater, a gym, a cafeteria, and parking. By the final phase, the school plans to have 2000 students. [10]

Academics

Goodyear High School intends to offer the following career pathways among three academies: [9]

Technology and design

Medicine

Business and entertainment

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