Buckeye Union High School District

The Buckeye Union High School District #201 (BUHSD) is a school district serving the town of Buckeye, Arizona and the far southern section of the city of Goodyear, Arizona. Situated approximately 30 miles west of Phoenix, Arizona the district serves approximately 3710 students in three comprehensive high schools and one alternative school. The district was founded in 1913 as Buckeye School District #33 and was later renamed to its current Buckeye Union High School District in 1930.

It operates Buckeye Union, Estrella Foothills, and Youngker high schools, as well as the Learning Center, an alternative school. Dr. Beverly Hurley has been the superintendent since 2003.

As early as 1913, Professor L.O. DuRoss, principal of Buckeye Grammar School, published in the local newspaper, the Buckeye Valley News, the need for all nearby school districts to combine resources to form one substantial high school that benefited residents of each district. The Buckeye School District gradually worked toward this goal by adding 10th and 11th grades in 1914 and 12th grade in 1920. By 1921, the Buckeye School qualified enough of its educational program to grant diplomas to two senior students. Then, beginning in 1922, a class graduated each year from the facilities shared with Buckeye Elementary School. It is important to note that prior to 1922, high school seniors had to complete their last year at Phoenix Union High School or at another accredited institution.

In February 1928 the Buckeye Board of Trustees approved a bond election for a new high school to be built at another site in Buckeye. Land was donated by local residents and, in September 1929, the doors of the new high school building built by Buckeye School District #33 opened at 902 Eason Avenue with approximately 60 students enrolled. At the same time a movement within the community advocated for the creation of a union high school, and a proposition was presented to voters living in the local school districts to establish a new and separate union high school district. The proposition reportedly had widespread support in all districts except one and the measure passed with little opposition.

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