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Deer Valley High School (Glendale, Arizona)
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Deer Valley High School is a public high school
located in Glendale, Arizona
. It is part of the Deer Valley Unified School District
. The school opened its doors for the first time in 1980 with an enrollment of 750 students. Today, the campus is housed on more than 60 acres (242,811.6 m²), and has a current enrollment of about 2,200 students. Deer Valley High School has long been recognized for outstanding student achievement in a wide range of academic and athletic areas. The school has over a hundred teachers, five counselors, one psychologist, four administrators, and numerous support staff. The school is currently being remodeled and is scheduled to be finished before the start of the 2011 school year. The current principal is Barbara Dobbs.
The Deer Valley Performance Jazz Ensemble was selected to perform at the very prestigious 2006, 60th Annual - "Midwest Clinic - An International Band and Orchestra Conference" which can be viewed at http://www.midwestclinic.org/videos/jazz_archive.asp. The experience was published at http://www.midwestclinic.com/pdfs/motifs307.pdf. The Performance Jazz Ensemble has won 3 National Contests (2002 and 2006, Conn-Selmer Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Jazz Contest and the 2006 Music and Arts Spring Swing Competition) 2 National Runner-Ups (2003 and 2004, Conn-Selmer Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Jazz Contest) and been featured at the 2005 and 2006 Arizona Music Educator's Conference.
The Marching Band has performed in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (1994) and also in the Tournament of Roses Parade (1994) as well as the Fiesta Bowl National Pageant of Bands.
The school hosts its own Jazz Festival and currently hosts the DVUSD marching bands exhibition.
Most recently, the 2006-2007 Marching Band received a rating of Superior with Distinction at the 2006 State Marching Festival and the Performance Jazz Ensemble has been invited to perform at the 2007 Western International Band Clinic in Seattle, WA. http://www.bandworld.org
On October 20, 2007 the Marching Band received the Rating of Superior at the Arizona State University Band Day. They Also received awards for Outstanding Music, Visual, GE and Auxiliary.
The Performance Jazz Ensemble most recently had a work commissioned by Fred Sturm (http://www.fredsturm.com) called "Skyhawk". "Skyhawk" is published by the Lorenz Corporation (http://www.lorenz.com/product.aspx?id=60_1322H)
, is currently in its 31st year of publication. It runs eight issues per year, which are distributed on a monthly basis (no issue is published in August or January). The newspaper typically uses 12 pages, though some years, including 2006-2007 and 2007–2008, there are 16 pages. It regularly features news
, sports, entertainment
, music
, feature topics, and a centerspread that goes in depth on one issue affecting students, including light issues like holiday themes, or controversial ones like teen usage of meth.
The Skyhawk Flight has recently created a website for their articles, polls, videos, and other things that cannot be put onto paper. Their website is http://theflightonline.com
Organized in the Squadron Format, the rest of the command staff is divided up. Other major roles are the Personnel Officer, and the Director of Information Technology. The Unit currently does not possess many ways to interact with the community outside of the school paper. The Drill Teams are what the majority of the public sees. The Drill Teams consist of Armed Drill, Color Guard, and Unarmed Drill.
During class time the unit is divided into Air Force styled flights; essentially a classroom complete with a cadet commander, cadet sergeant, and cadet guidon bearer. From this point, classes further divided into Freshman, Sophomore/Junior, and the Senior Flight.
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
located in Glendale, Arizona
Glendale, Arizona
Glendale is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, USA, located about nine miles northwest from Downtown Phoenix. According to 2010 Census Bureau, the population of the city is 226,721....
. It is part of the Deer Valley Unified School District
Deer Valley Unified School District
Deer Valley Unified School District is a PreK-12 school district, headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. DVUSD is the fifth largest school district in the state of Arizona, serving portions of Phoenix, Glendale, Peoria, Anthem, New River, Cave Creek and unincorporated areas of northwest Maricopa County...
. The school opened its doors for the first time in 1980 with an enrollment of 750 students. Today, the campus is housed on more than 60 acres (242,811.6 m²), and has a current enrollment of about 2,200 students. Deer Valley High School has long been recognized for outstanding student achievement in a wide range of academic and athletic areas. The school has over a hundred teachers, five counselors, one psychologist, four administrators, and numerous support staff. The school is currently being remodeled and is scheduled to be finished before the start of the 2011 school year. The current principal is Barbara Dobbs.
Fall Sports
- Cross CountryCross country runningCross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
- FootballAmerican footballAmerican football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
- GolfGolfGolf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
- Spiritline
- SwimmingSwimming (sport)Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
and DivingDivingDiving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one... - VolleyballVolleyballVolleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
(Girls)
Winter Sports
- BasketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
(Boys) - BasketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
(Girls) - Soccer (Boys)
- Soccer (Girls)
- WrestlingWrestlingWrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...
Spring Sports
- BaseballBaseballBaseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
- SoftballSoftballSoftball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
- TennisTennisTennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
- Track and fieldTrack and fieldTrack and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...
- Volleyball (Boys)
Clubs
- Academic decathlon
- Advocates for Campus Tolerance
- Art Club
- Best Buddies
- Broadcasting
- ChristianChristianA Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...
Club on Campus - Close-Up Government
- Deca
- Drill Team
- DramaDramaDrama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...
/ThespianActorAn actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
Club - FBLA
- Fellowship of Christian Athletes
- Freshmen MentorMentorIn Greek mythology, Mentor was the son of Alcimus or Anchialus. In his old age Mentor was a friend of Odysseus who placed Mentor and Odysseus' foster-brother Eumaeus in charge of his son Telemachus, and of Odysseus' palace, when Odysseus left for the Trojan War.When Athena visited Telemachus she...
- AFJROTC Program
- IMPACT/FCCLA
- Integral
- Invisible Children Club
- International Club
- Mock TrialTrialA trial is, in the most general sense, a test, usually a test to see whether something does or does not meet a given standard.It may refer to:*Trial , the presentation of information in a formal setting, usually a court...
- Key Club
- National Honor Society
- NewspaperNewspaperA newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
(Skyhawk Flight) - Peer MediatorsMeditationMeditation is any form of a family of practices in which practitioners train their minds or self-induce a mode of consciousness to realize some benefit....
- PhysicsPhysicsPhysics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
Club - Quill & Scroll
- Quest
- ScienceScienceScience is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
Club - Society of Female Scholars
- SpanishSpanish languageSpanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
Club - Spanish Honor Society
- Speech and Debate
- Stagecraft
- Student GovernmentGovernmentGovernment refers to the legislators, administrators, and arbitrators in the administrative bureaucracy who control a state at a given time, and to the system of government by which they are organized...
- YearbookYearbookA yearbook, also known as an annual, is a book to record, highlight, and commemorate the past year of a school or a book published annually. Virtually all American, Australian and Canadian high schools, most colleges and many elementary and middle schools publish yearbooks...
Band
The current band program offers 3 Concert Bands(Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Winds and Symphonic Band), 3 Jazz Bands (Performance Jazz Ensemble, Advanced Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Ensemble), several Jazz Combos, Marching Band, Percussion and Colorguard.The Deer Valley Performance Jazz Ensemble was selected to perform at the very prestigious 2006, 60th Annual - "Midwest Clinic - An International Band and Orchestra Conference" which can be viewed at http://www.midwestclinic.org/videos/jazz_archive.asp. The experience was published at http://www.midwestclinic.com/pdfs/motifs307.pdf. The Performance Jazz Ensemble has won 3 National Contests (2002 and 2006, Conn-Selmer Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Jazz Contest and the 2006 Music and Arts Spring Swing Competition) 2 National Runner-Ups (2003 and 2004, Conn-Selmer Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Jazz Contest) and been featured at the 2005 and 2006 Arizona Music Educator's Conference.
The Marching Band has performed in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (1994) and also in the Tournament of Roses Parade (1994) as well as the Fiesta Bowl National Pageant of Bands.
The school hosts its own Jazz Festival and currently hosts the DVUSD marching bands exhibition.
Most recently, the 2006-2007 Marching Band received a rating of Superior with Distinction at the 2006 State Marching Festival and the Performance Jazz Ensemble has been invited to perform at the 2007 Western International Band Clinic in Seattle, WA. http://www.bandworld.org
On October 20, 2007 the Marching Band received the Rating of Superior at the Arizona State University Band Day. They Also received awards for Outstanding Music, Visual, GE and Auxiliary.
The Performance Jazz Ensemble most recently had a work commissioned by Fred Sturm (http://www.fredsturm.com) called "Skyhawk". "Skyhawk" is published by the Lorenz Corporation (http://www.lorenz.com/product.aspx?id=60_1322H)
The Skyhawk Flight
The Skyhawk Flight, the Deer Valley student newspaperStudent newspaper
A student newspaper is a newspaper run by students of a university, high school, middle school, or other school. These papers traditionally cover local and, primarily, school or university news....
, is currently in its 31st year of publication. It runs eight issues per year, which are distributed on a monthly basis (no issue is published in August or January). The newspaper typically uses 12 pages, though some years, including 2006-2007 and 2007–2008, there are 16 pages. It regularly features news
News
News is the communication of selected information on current events which is presented by print, broadcast, Internet, or word of mouth to a third party or mass audience.- Etymology :...
, sports, entertainment
Entertainment
Entertainment consists of any activity which provides a diversion or permits people to amuse themselves in their leisure time. Entertainment is generally passive, such as watching opera or a movie. Active forms of amusement, such as sports, are more often considered to be recreation...
, music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
, feature topics, and a centerspread that goes in depth on one issue affecting students, including light issues like holiday themes, or controversial ones like teen usage of meth.
The Skyhawk Flight has recently created a website for their articles, polls, videos, and other things that cannot be put onto paper. Their website is http://theflightonline.com
AFJROTC
The stellar cadets are rewarded with the positions of advanced rank varying in rank and in level of responsibility.Organized in the Squadron Format, the rest of the command staff is divided up. Other major roles are the Personnel Officer, and the Director of Information Technology. The Unit currently does not possess many ways to interact with the community outside of the school paper. The Drill Teams are what the majority of the public sees. The Drill Teams consist of Armed Drill, Color Guard, and Unarmed Drill.
During class time the unit is divided into Air Force styled flights; essentially a classroom complete with a cadet commander, cadet sergeant, and cadet guidon bearer. From this point, classes further divided into Freshman, Sophomore/Junior, and the Senior Flight.