By Darcy Mentone of the Vail School District At the Tuesday night board meeting, the Vail Governing Board accepted Calvin Baker’s retirement effective February 1st, 2020. The board then...
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VUSD Update – August 2025
Off to a Great Start The 25/26 school year is off to a great start. This year is especially exciting as we celebrated the grand...
Read MoreVUSD Update – November 2024
In Vail… Parents Get to Choose Long before I became superintendent, I was a Vail dad. Like many of you, my wife and I moved...
Read MoreBest Of Class 2024
Congratulations to the graduating class of Pantano High School 2024! Read what these graduates have planned for such promising...
Read MoreVail School District Foundation – July 2023
The 2023-24 school year is off to a great start! We would like to thank 3 more of our renewing sponsors for this school year...
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Local Parents Express Concerns
By Anne Gibson The twelve members of the Vail Serves Vail subcommittee spent six months developing a three question “Survey Monkey” to determine what parents considered their biggest...
Where Are They Now: Dec. ’19
Dylan Mark Thomas Spencer is a 2014 graduate of Cienega High and the son of Barry and Carlyn Spencer. Dylan earned an Associates Degree in Mechanical Engineering at Pima Community College...
Cienega’s Hall of Honor is Here
By Samantha Ayonn Flores Picture the masterful minds and characters that came from the gates of Cienega High School; now picture Vail without them. Very odd right? Well, even if it is hard...
Letter to the Editor: Boerup
To the editor: How to … launder $2 million. In 2018, the Vail Unified School District (VUSD) reached out to the state of Arizona for a piece of property to locate a new VUSD high...
Local Student Wins in PGA Junior League Championship
By Article Author Bryce Colby is an 8th grader at the Corona Foothills Middle School. He has been a part of the Catalina Foothills All Star PGA Junior League golf team this season and...
Foundations in Personal Finance Comes to Cienega High
By Article Author Students at Cienega High School are learning how to deal with the serious money issues ahead of them from Ramsey Education’s Foundations in Personal Finance course, thanks...
The Vail School District is Number Two in Arizona
By Anne Gibson It was early August in the summer of 2019 when the word came that the prestigious Niche team had ranked the Vail School District as the number two of the “Best School...
Vail School District Foundation Update
By Stacy Winstryg We would like to give a special thanks to Mr. Toro Carniceria for a successful fundraiser. Taco Tuesday’s was a huge hit in the community, and we thank Mr. Toro’s for...
Vail Brothers Build Toward Their Eagle Scout Badges...
By Diane C. Taylor Brothers Garett and Dylan Simpson, students at Cienega High School in Vail, were in search of a project to earn their Eagle Scout badges. The Presidio San Agustín del...