Welcome to Valley Academy!
Our mission is to offer back-to-basics, traditional education by providing a challenging, sequential, teacher-directed, standards-based, textbook-driven curriculum supported by individual accountability and high academic and behavioral standards.
Valley Academy is named “2011 School of the Year”
by the Arizona Charter Schools Association
In the video below, Cuyler Reid, school founder and board member, and Heidi Mitchell, C.E.O., share some of Valley Academy’s history and philosophy. Administration, teachers, and parents discuss what makes Valley Academy an award-winning school.
Painted Rock Academy to Open in August, 2012
Valley Academy welcomes Painted Rock Academy to the family of Reid Traditional Schools. Painted Rock Academy will open in August, 2012, and will continue in the Valley Academy tradition of excellence in education. Visit the Painted Rock Academy website for more information.
Trees shade the front entrance of the new Painted Rock Academy campus. For more views and further details about the facilities, click here or on the picture above.
Valley Academy Charter School Earns an “A” from the Arizona Department of Education!
Just like school children have been doing for a hundred years or more, schools now must take a letter-grade report card home and explain it. In Arizona, schools now are being graded with an A through F letter system.
Governor Jan Brewer signed SB 1286 into law in 2010. The new A-F letter grade accountability system was designed to give parents clear information that is easy to understand about how a school is performing.
The current AZ LEARNS accountability system uses students' scores on the Arizona Instrument to Measure Standards (AIMS) to determine a label for the school and school district. Labels...