In the June issue of The Vail Voice, we reported that Dennis Barger, the principal at Vail Academy and High School, was selected as the National Association of Secondary School Principals...
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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...
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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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Vail Student Nominated for The Congress of Future...
Trinity Peters, a Junior at Trinity of Vail, Arizona, was a Delegate of the Congress of Future Science and Technology Leaders held in in Lowell, MA on June 29th – July 1st, 2016. The...
The Advanced Placement Exam
Senior Counselor at Cienega High School The Advanced Placement (AP) exam is given to over 400,000 students each Spring. It’s a platform that allows our scholars to compete against scholars...
Piano Lessons: Making a Serious Inquiry
At the bottom of my ad reads “Committed Inquiries Only.” What do I mean by that? The short answer is you really are ready to start lessons when you inquire. You have worked out the...
Vail Parent Network Events
While we are hearing a lot about the upcoming Presidential election, it is just as important, if not more so, to be informed about what is happening at the local level. This year, we have...
Advanced Placement Risks
This month, thousands of Vail School District high school students are heading back into the classrooms. Many have elected to enroll in Advanced Placement (AP) courses. There are numerous...
Piano Lessons: An Ideal Time and Place to Begin
Because I teach piano students in several Tucson-area school districts, the Vail School District’s oddball academic calendar, out of sync with those of the other districts, creates a...
Best of Class
Andrada Polytechnic High School Andrada Polytecnhic High School Valedictorian is Lindsay Renee Freeman. She will be attending Arizona State University and plans to major in biology and/or...
School Gets New Track From Community by Trent Thomas
May 19th was a big day for the students of Ocotillo Ridge Elementary School. Numerous corporate, nonprofit, and personal donations came together in front of an excited crowd of 640 students...
Vail Parent Network: Funding Fight 2016
It started on the evening of April 20th with a notice on Facebook when a group called “DSCS Funding Fight 2016” was created. The group was established to draw attention to the...