Poston Butte High School

Public high school in San Tan Valley, Arizona, United States

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Poston Butte High School is a high school in San Tan Valley, Arizona in the Florence Unified School District. It opened July 20, 2009.

One-to-one computing

Poston Butte High School does not employ textbooks. Instead, the school's one-to-one computing policy provides a laptop to each student in lieu of textbooks.^[2]

The first school to use one-to-one computing in Arizona was Empire High School, which started doing so in 2005. Florence district officials worked with Empire to implement a similar program at Poston Butte in 2009.^[3] After successful implementation at Poston Butte, it was expanded to Florence High School in 2010.^[4]

First graduating class

The first class graduated from Poston Butte on May 30, 2012.^[5] It had 253 students.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Poston Butte High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved December 29, 2019.
^ http://www.fusdaz.org/OurDISTRICT/AboutUs/OnetoOneComputing/tabid/5114/Default^{[permanent dead link]}
^ https://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2009/08/27/20090827postonbutte0827.html Poston Butte high-school students go digital
^ "Santan Valley Today". Archived from the original on February 8, 2017. Retrieved July 1, 2012.
^ http://www.trivalleycentral.com/articles/2012/06/07/florence_reminder_blade_tribune/schools_and_education/doc4fcfddf3d72e8566591920.txt^{[dead link]}