Canyon View High School (Arizona)

Canyon View High School is a public high school in Waddell, Arizona, United States. Operated by the Agua Fria Union High School District, it is the fifth high school in the district. Construction on Canyon View High School began in September 2017, following a groundbreaking ceremony in January 2017. Designed by DLR Group, Canyon View features an informal setting, with open and malleable classrooms and a design focused on blurring elements of indoor and outdoor settings together. Canyon View cost a total of $78 million to build, and its campus covers . Canyon View High School opened in 2018 to a freshman class of 451. As of 2022, the school offers multiple Advanced Placement courses, 23 varsity sports, and various extracurricular activities to its 1,899 students. The school's demographics largely consist of Caucasian and Hispanic and Latino American students. Initial plans for a high school in the Waddell area were envisioned as early as 2016, necessitated by overcrowding issues in the Agua Fria Union High School District (AFUHSD), where class sizes were exceeding over 40 students in some classes. In February 2016, the AFUHSD was awarded$33.4 million from the Arizona School Facilities Board. This funding was put at risk with a proposal from the Arizona Senate in April 2016, which altered the formula used to calculate funding. In January 2017, ground was broken for the first new high school in Waddell in a decade. Contractor Chasse Building Team won the project in February 2017, and the campus was expected to be finished by July 2018. However, construction on Canyon View only began in September 2017, leaving a tight deadline for Chasse. In order to complete the project in time, Chasse divided its team into two independent project teams, and implemented measures to save time. For instance, the concrete and masonry constructors suggested an alteration on two of the five masonry buildings; the team would go vertical with the masonry and then pour the slab onto the buildings, saving six weeks off of the schedule.