Laveen Elementary School District

In 1913, Walter Laveen donated land on the south side of Dobbins Road east of 51st Avenue for a new school.

Once reconstructed on the Laveen School campus, the main floor, equipped with a stage, served as the auditorium and the basement was used as a cafeteria.

In 1979, a new cafeteria was constructed on the Laveen School campus and the old building was converted into a home economics classroom on the main level and an industrial arts shop in the basement.

The Laveen area began to experience substantial residential development in the early 2000s with the result of dramatic increases in student enrollment.

With funding through a bond approved by voters in 2008, Laveen School was rebuilt on a new site purchased from the John F. Long Trust, located south of Dobbins Road on the east side of 43rd Avenue.

Initially, four classroom buildings in the old school were kept and leased to South Mountain Community College for its Laveen campus.

Similar to the other schools in the district, Paseo Pointe, which opened in fall 2016, is designed to serve about 1,000 students in grades K–8.

Paseo Pointe School offers a dual language immersion program in which students are taught basic content (mathematics, science, social studies) in both English and Spanish.