Skull Valley Elementary School is a public school in Skull Valley, Arizona

Skull Valley, Arizona

Skull Valley is a small, unincorporated, and rural, ranch community in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States. It is located twelve miles west of Prescott. There is a general store, a gas station, a cafe, an elementary school, an autoshop, a fire station, a church, and a post office...

, currently offering grades K-6. The school has operated for years with two teachers and generally 20-30 students.http://www.azauditor.gov/Reports/School_Districts/Districts/Skull%20Valley%20ESD/2007/Skull%20Valley%20ESD.pdf

The school district has leased land to the Skull Valley Historical Society, which has a museum next door to the school, and the historical school building itself is a significant historical structure in the area.

As of the 2003 census, the population in the Skull Valley Elementary School District was 525 people.http://www.ade.az.gov/asd/operations/ArizonaCensus2003.pdf

Historical significance

Although official records do not indicate this, area settlers recall that a school was established in 1878. The school had been formally established by the early 1900s, when it offered education to children in all of the grades.

The two-room schoolhouse structure built in 1925 still stands on the school grounds.

Despite extensive consolidations over time in Yavapai County, Arizona

Yavapai County, Arizona

-2010:Whereas according to the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau:*89.3% White*0.6% Black*1.7% Native American*0.8% Asian*0.1% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander*2.5% Two or more races*5.0% Other races*13.6% Hispanic or Latino -2000:...

, Skull Valley still has a school.
The new/current elementary school building sits on the same land, next to the historical schoolhouse. Currently, students above the 8th grade are bussed to Prescott to attend high school.http://www.sharlot.org/roundup/archives/SVDM.shtmlhttp://www.sharlot.org/roundup/artifacts/SVDM.shtml