December 2025
Your voice is essential in shaping the future of the Deer Valley Unified School District. We are inviting you to participate in a survey that will guide both our long-range district planning and the development of budget priorities for the 2026–2027 school year. Your feedback ensures that district decisions reflect the values, needs, and perspectives of our community.
The first survey section supports the next phase of the district’s Long-Range Planning process. In the initial survey administered last month, parents and guardians responded to an open-ended question about what matters most when considering school attendance area and boundary planning. Those responses have been analyzed and grouped into common themes. This follow-up survey now asks you to rank these themes in order of importance, helping the district better understand community priorities as we plan for future growth and resource alignment.
Please note that high school boundaries will not be impacted during this boundary change.
The second survey section focuses on gathering input for the 2026–2027 Budget. Similar to the first Long-Range Planning survey, this budget input survey asks an open-ended question inviting you to identify from your perspective what you believe should be the district’s top budget priority for the upcoming school year (2026-2027). These responses will be reviewed and summarized to develop a ranked-choice budget survey, which will be shared with families after Winter Break.
Thank you for taking the time to share your perspectives. Your participation is vital in helping Deer Valley maximize and balance resources across the district, ensuring continuity and excellence in the educational experience for every student.
This survey will close December 19th.
Ring in the holiday season with a performance by DVUSD students! Many schools are hosting fine arts concerts and performances ahead of Winter Break! Check the Fine Arts calendar to see the schedule of events!
If your child will be 5 years old by August 31, 2026, start his or her extraordinary educational journey with DVUSD kindergarten.
DVUSD Kindergarten Program Highlights
Free Full-Day Program for those 5 years of age by August 31, 2026
Special Classes offered every day including: Art, Physical Education and Music
Before and After School care programs
Last year, over 95.2% of our senior graduated, earning more than $70 million dollars in scholarships
37 DVUSD Schools are "A" or "B" Rated Schools
DVUSD is one of the top districts in Arizona with the highest number of dollars invested back into students’ education
Variety of Specialized programs including: Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM), Academy of Arts, Gifted Program Models, and Language Immersion Programs (Spanish and Mandarin)
Every teacher in DVUSD is a certified and highly-qualified
Give a little at the holidays, get a little break at tax time!
Single taxpayers can contribute up to $200, and married households filing jointly can contribute up to $400 to the DVUSD school or program of your choice. You do not need to have a student enrolled in school to contribute!
Visit DVUSD.org/taxcredit and make a deductible contribution by April 15, 2026, for your 2025 tax filing.
Building on over a decade of success with the Hour of Code, DVUSD is continuing with the newest iteration - the Hour of AI - designed to help students and educators everywhere take a step into understanding and creating with Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The Hour of AI is created in response to the growing call to expand foundational AI literacy alongside computer science. Through hands-on, easy-to-follow activities, millions of students around the world (and throughout DVUSD) will explore uses of AI and imagine what’s possible when they harness it for good.
In DVUSD, we partner with volunteers from USAA to lead Hour of AI activities in several of our elementary classrooms, alongside CTE student Ambassadors from our high school Software & App Design program going to middle school campuses. Additional campuses are hosting their own special events to celebrate the Hour of AI.
The celebration of Computer Science Education Week (December 8th-12th) can continue at home with your own Hour of AI! Explore activities: url.dvusd.org/HourofAI
How do the wheels on the bus keep going round and round?
The Glendale Independent recently featured DVUSD bus driver (and alum!) Wesley DeWitt in a story celebrating a positive start to the school year for DVUSD bus drivers. See that story and more at DVUSD.org/inthenews.
If you would like to transport our most precious cargo, our students, learn more about becoming a DVUSD bus driver at DVUSD.org/drive. Take advantage of the recent pay increase and paid holidays each school year!
Athletics participation fees have increased for the 2025-26 school year for middle school and high school athletes, as well as high school marching bands and AFJROTC color guard units. See the new fees listed below.
Fees were increased in part because of the failure of the M&O override passage in November 2024 and are now comparable to our neighboring and similarly sized school districts. The increased rates were approved unanimously (5-0) by the DVSUD Governing Board on May 13, 2025.
