Sedona-Oak Creek Unified School District
School district in Yavapai County, Arizona
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The Sedona-Oak Creek Unified School District (SOCUSD) is a school district headquartered in Sedona, Arizona. It operates Sedona Red Rock High School as well as the West Sedona School, which serves students in grades K through 6.
The district includes portions of Yavapai and Coconino counties.[1] It includes Sedona, as well as Village of Oak Creek (Big Park).[2] It also includes Red Rock.[3]
The formal name is Sedona-Oak Creek Joint Unified School District No. 9 of Yavapai and Coconino Counties.[4]
History
In December 1990 a referendum involving voters in both Yavapai and Coconino counties was held on whether this district should be created. 2,321 of 2,509 voters approved creating this district, a result characterized by the Arizona Daily Sun as a "landslide".[5] The district came into existence after June 30, 1991.[6] The district included land formerly in the Flagstaff Unified School District, Cottonwood-Oak Creek Elementary School District, and Mingus Union High School District.[1]
There had been a previous proposal submitted to the Arizona Legislature to create a bi-county school district in the area in the 1960s.[7][8]
At the time the Sedona district formed, Sedona students continued to attend Flagstaff for high school.[9] The majority of the territory of the district was created was in Yavapai County, along with most of the voting base, so Yavapai County became the district's county of jurisdiction.[6]
Schools
- West Sedona School (K-6)
- Flagstaff USD previously operated the elementary school in Sedona.[7] The facility has a community swimming pool which opened in 1975.[10] It was formerly a K-8 school.[11] In 2008 many older buildings were replaced with new ones.[12]
- Sedona Red Rock High School (7-12)
- Red Rock Academy (K-12, alternative)
It previously operated the K–8 school Big Park Community School, which opened in 1994.[12] However, the school district voted in May 2020 to close the school due to budget deficit concerns.[13] According to Randy Hawley, a member of the board of trustees, the district was having trouble having enough money to operate Big Park Community School, and the number of students had declined.[14]