CFSD IN THE NEWS
In CFSD’s September Deep Learning Showcase, we highlight how student learning goes beyond the classroom to positively impact the community. Fifth graders from Manzanita and Ventana Vista Elementary Schools are creating portraits of animals up for adoption through a partnership with The Humane Society. The portraits are displayed on the animals' enclosures to help encourage adoptions.
CHOOSE CFSD
From the first day of school to graduation, CFSD strives for every student to feel valued and supported. Teachers nurture each student’s unique interests, abilities, and passions as they prepare them to launch their dreams. In our latest video, Someone To You, see how a CFSD education helps our students grow into who they were meant to become.
ALUMNI NEWS
Foothills Grad Works on Astronomical
Student Project
Foothills grad Walter Rahmer '20 was a key member of CatSat, the University of Arizona's first satellite built entirely by students. The CatSat team is interested in investigating how signals propagate through the ionosphere, one of the uppermost layers of Earth's atmosphere, depending on factors like space weather and the time of day. Walter's work tracks with his interests at CFHS, where he was known for his passion for Science Olympiad--particularly in astronomy. Keep shooting for the stars, Walter! Learn more here.
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS
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A perfect ACT score is an extraordinary achievement, attained by only about 0.313% of students nationwide. This year, we proudly announce that two Catalina Foothills High School students have joined this prestigious group. Congratulations to Ava Becker and Bryan Zhang!
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We are pleased to share that eight of our students have been recognized as Commended Students in the National Merit® Scholarship Program. As Commended Students, they are part of an elite group of about 34,000 nationwide for their high achievement on the 2023 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®).
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Junior Katherine McNulty was named the girls champion of the cross-country Rio Rico Rattler Cross Country Invitational.
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Junior Oliver De Guia is one of three Tucson junior golfers who qualified for the Pebble Beach at the PURE Insurance Championship Impacting First Tee tournament.
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Isabelle Babst, a seventh grader in Ms. Kelly Smith's science class at Esperero Canyon Middle School, has been named one of the Top 300 Junior Innovators in the 2024 Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge (JIC).
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Fifty-nine CFHS students were recently inducted into the National Honor Society (NHS) in recognition of their outstanding academic achievement.
View more outstanding achievements here
OPEN ENROLLMENT
Open enrollment is a state law that allows students to attend schools outside of their resident school if the receiving school has the capacity to accept them. CFSD residents who wish to attend a school other than their home area school must apply under the open enrollment program as well as non-resident families.
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