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East Valley K-12 students are served by 14 school districts, 125 charter schools and one regional career-focused district (East Valley Institute of Technology). One measure of the academic quality of East Valley schools is that the region qualified 12 schools to compete in the 2012 Arizona Academic Decathlon competition - more than any other ...
The Phoenix metropolitan area, also known as the Valley of the Sun, the Salt River Valley, metro Phoenix, or The Valley, is the largest metropolitan statistical area in the Southwestern United States, with its largest principal city being the city of Phoenix. It includes much of central Arizona.
It is located west of the Phoenix city limits, within Maricopa County, Arizona. The boundaries of the west valley is generally considered Interstate 17 in the east, Buckeye in west, the Sierra Estrella Mountains in the south, and Anthem in the north. [1] [2]
While US 60 is co-signed with I-10 and I-17 through central Phoenix, it becomes a separate freeway in its own right on an east-west alignment between Baseline Road and Southern Avenue. Known as the Superstition Freeway, this alignment serves major East Valley cities including Tempe, Mesa, Gilbert, and Apache Junction. There are two interchanges ...
The city of Phoenix minus Ahwatukee and areas north of Union Hills Drive remained in 602, along with slivers of Tempe and Glendale. Most of the East Valley, along with Town of Paradise Valley and north Phoenix east of 22nd Street, took area code 480. Most of the West Valley, plus all of Phoenix north of Union Hills, was placed into area code 623.
Tempe is located in the East Valley section of metropolitan Phoenix; it is bordered by Phoenix and Guadalupe on the west, Scottsdale and the Salt River Pima–Maricopa Indian Community on the north, Chandler on the south, and Mesa on the east. Tempe is the location of the main campus of Arizona State University.
The original town-site was bounded by Galveston Street to the north, Frye Road to the south, Hartford Street to the west, and Hamilton Street to the east. [5] By 1913, a town center was established, featuring the Hotel San Marcos, which also had the first grass golf course in the state. Chandler High School was established in 1914.
The former 480 area includes the East Valley, including Ahwatukee in the city of Phoenix and some communities in Pinal County such as San Tan Valley. Major cities include Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert, Scottsdale, and Tempe. The former 623 area includes the West Valley. Major cities include Glendale, Surprise, Buckeye, and Avondale.