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 OFFOCUS PROGRAMS on

1,390 ACRES OF LAND (at school sites)

200 SQUARE MILES.

A Menu of Services and Personnel2008-2009

4,600 TEACHERS (includes all certified contract employees)instruct

72,000 STUDENTS with theassistance of

5,700 OTHER WORKERS who support instruction by offering a variety of services (includesall classified staff, contract andnon-contract)

A Menu of Services and Personnel2008-2009

44,587 MEALS served daily8 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 HEALTHASSISTANTSproviding health services.

A Menu of Services and Personnel2008-2009

420 EMPLOYEES providing a cleanhealthy 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) keepingschools in good repair

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

GRADUATESCLASS OF 2008

Dobson 645

Mesa High 765

Mountain View 820

Red Mountain 816

Skyline 527

Westwood 583

EVA 90

Total Graduates 4,292

$41,803,837

In Scholarships

Offered to 1,121 graduating seniors

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+.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

ENROLLMENT

  TOTAL   TOTAL

YEAR ENROLLMENT YEAR ENROLLMENT

1945 3,429 1996 70,318

1950 6,208 1997 70,000

1955 8,933 1997 70,793

1960 12,171 1999 72,125

1965 17,673 2000 73,738

1970 22,590 2001 73,981

1975 31,266 2002 47,507

1980 38,142 2003 47,737

1985 51,321 2004 74,916

1990 63,063 2005 71,851

1991 64,455 2006 74039

1992 65,952 2007 72,523

1993 67,488 2008 72,000

1995 70,098

ATHLETICS

State Championships*

Baseball 7 Basketball 25Football 23 Golf 14Track 32 Wrestling 5Softball 4 Volleyball 4Cross Country 13 Gymnastics 7Soccer 2 Tennis 6Swimming & Diving 10

*Represents both Boys and Girls from 1908 to present

ATHLETICS

5,635 Games, Matches and Meets were held for students’ participation in sports events

7,014 Students participated in interscholastic athletics

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 FinalistsDobson 8Mountain View 5Red Mountain 3Skyline 2

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.

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

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* Math Writing

MPS 526 554 506Arizona 519 525 502National 502 515 494

*Formerly Verbal

ACT COMPOSITE SCORES1990-1991 through 2006-2007

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1991

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1992

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SAT Critical Reading(Formerly Verbal) Trends

1995-1996 through 2006-2007

SAT - Critical Reading

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1995

-199

6

1996

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7

1997

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8

1998

-109

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District Arizona National

SAT Math Trends1995-1996 through 2006-2007

SAT Math

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SAT Writing2005-2006 through 2006-2007

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ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGESERVING 11,500 STUDENTS

REPRESENTING

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)

ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGESERVING 11,500 STUDENTS

REPRESENTING

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

ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGESERVING 11,500 STUDENTS

REPRESENTING

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

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.

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.

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

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

TEACHERS ARE ASSISTED BYTHESE RESOURCES AND

DEPARTMENTS:

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

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

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

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

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

ATHLETICSSkyline High School State Championships

Track - Girls 2006, 2007

Track – Boys 2006

Swimming – Boys 2006

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

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

Mesa Union High School District #207Established December 26, 1907

Elementary Feeder Districts:

LehiJordanAlmaMesaNephi

Highland

Elementary Schools DistrictsConsolidated into

Mesa Elementary District #4July 1946

These Districts Included:

Mesa Elementary School District

Alma Elementary School District

Jordan Elementary School District

Lehi Elementary School District

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.

MESA SUPERINTENDENTS

1907- 1909 John Loper, Both Mesa and Mesa HSDistricts (Two School

1909-1914 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 1953-1967Rulon T. Shepherd (One School Board/Two Districts)

1967-1984 George Smith

1984-1999 Jim Zaharis

1999-2000 Dale Frederick

2000-Present Debra Duvall