Verde Valley School is a co-educational boarding and day school for students in grades 9-12. Located under the rim of the Colorado Plateau at an elevation of 4,500 feet, Sadona is blessed with four mild seasons, plenty of sunshine and clean air. The red rock valley campus is surrounded on three sides by national forest land and offers beautiful surroundings for year-round outdoor activities. Verde Valley is apart of the International Baccalaureate program, but with a twist. Which means you will earn your IB but with real, hands on experience outdoors. Verde Valley students participate each year in Project Period, where students spend the last week of school engaged in arts, service, and outdoor projects meaning to inspire and challenge students to give back to the community. Verde Valley utilizes the time between Thanksgiving break and Winter break and just after field trips – is now a highly anticipated time of collaborative, throw-the-regular-schedule-out-the-window, kinesthetic learning designed to support off-campus trips and large-scale projects. Projects are unique and varied, reflecting the talents and interests of teachers and their students.
Verde Valley School
Sedona, Arizona | High School, 9-12, Co-ed | Founded in 1948
Drama Society
Equestrian Club
Fencing Club
Horizons Historical Review
History Movie Club
Archery Club
Cadet Band
Co-Ed Soccer
Creative Writing & Publishing
Current Events Roundtable
Film & Video Club
Hiking Club
Outdoorsmen Club
Basketball
Cross Country
Dance
Equestrian
Golf
Soccer
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- Verde Valley offers the prestigious International Baccalaureate Diploma Program as its sole curriculum with the program IB + Dirt. This approach combines the academic structure that comes with the IB Program with other environmental and explorative topics to create a well rounded experience for students.
-Art program utilizes a recording studio, art studio, and ceramics studio to dive into music, theatre, studio arts, ceramics, and photography
-Yearly Field Expedition bringing exposure to new cultures, people, and creations in a highly immersive outdoors experience
-Project Period is a hands-on, creative, active, and service-based program where students can choose two experiential learning options which they will create an exhibition for at the end of the project period
-Emphasis on service to others with service efforts focused globally, locally, and within the VVS community
-Global Goals allows students and faculty to work on service projects and build relationships through awareness and support
-Team oriented Equestrian Program including recreational and competitive English, Western, and Bareback riding
