New Florence Unified School District High School gets a Name

The FUSD governing board has chose the name for the new high school. After reviewing dozens of essays from FUSD 8th graders, the first class to graduate from the new high school, they chose Poston Butte High School as the new name.
According to Meghan Kuebler, an 8th grader at Copper Basin: “I chose the name Poston Butte High because Poston Butte is a well known landmark; it is the burial place of its founder, Charles Poston; and, I think we should recognize that Mr. Poston convinced President Lincoln to add Arizona as a United States territory. I think we should honor the “father” of our state through the spirit of a high school.”
Well said and well done! Megan looks forward to being one of the group that will be the first to graduate from this high school.

The building of this new school comes just in time. The students living in Pinal County have been bused miles out to Florence to attend Florence High School. While Florence has been around for a very long time, it just can’t hold all of the high schoolers coming from the San Tan Corridor as well as residents of Florence.
Now, the high school students will attend high school right in their own backyard!