Hidden Hills opened in 1989 and is one of 31 elementary schools in the Paradise Valley Unified School District.  We are located in northeast Phoenix just north of Thunderbird and west of Cave Creek Roads. Our school feeds into Shea Middle School (grades 7 & 8) and Shadow Mountain High School. 

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One of our main goals is to create a positive and productive learning environment for our students.  We offer preschool through grade 6 to more than 600 students at Hidden Hills. Our preschool is an integrated special needs program which meets Monday - Thursday; the AM session times are 8:30 a.m. - 11 a.m. and the PM session times are 12 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

This program is facilitated through the district Special Needs Preschool Evaluation Center and can be contacted at (602) 493-6130.  Our district-wide kindergarten is a free, full-day program that includes 180 minutes of language and literacy instruction and 60 minutes of math each day. 

Kindergarten through sixth grade attend school Monday - Friday from 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Kindergarten through  fifth grades are self contained classrooms, while sixth grade is departmentalized.  Kindergarten through 6th grade also attend special area classes in music, art, library/computer and physical education. Strings and Band classes are offered to fifth and sixth grade students. After school enrichment classes are offered in a variety of subjects.

As you may know, our school actively participates in the Accelerated Reader Program. This national program is designed to enable students to take a quiz on the computer after they have read a book. The students really enjoy using computers and this is a very effective way to measure if they understood and comprehended what they read. There are over 103,000 quizzez with Accelerated Reader. This means there most likely is a quiz associated with a book your student might read even if the book is not from our school library. There is a website you can access from your computer at home or work to check for a quiz. In addition to finding a quiz, you will also see the book level and how many points the quiz is worth. There is even a brief description of what is book is about. the web site is http://www.arbookfind.com

Our highly qualified staff at Hidden Hills consists of:

• twenty-six certified classroom teachers
• four certified special area teachers
• two certified on-site special education teachers (one teacher for primary and one for intermediate)
• two certified gifted teachers
• two certified structured english immersion teachers for students grades K - 6
• eight classified paraprofessionals
• six additional classified staff working as duty aides and crossing guards 
• one social worker on staff 3 days per week
• one school psychologist that we share with another elementary school in the district
• one full-time speech therapist
• one full-time registered nurse
• one occupational therapist, one adaptive PE teacher and one physical therapist (we share with several other schools within the district)

The Hidden Hills Staff believes it is our responsibility to:

• Create a safe environment that will build positive self-esteem/concepts/images.
• Assure success for everyone.
• Set high yet reasonable expectations.
• Develop support for students using a team approach: student, school staff, parent/family, and community.
• Model appropriate behavior.
• Offer parent support opportunities through classes, communications, and individual conferences.
• Monitor students’ needs by looking at their strengths, weaknesses, and learning styles.
• Use a variety of instructional methods to go from the known to the unknown in order to develop
       higher level thinking.
• Conduct ongoing and current staff development to improve instruction.
• Increase instructional time on task.
• Define and clarify our goals and objectives.
• Integrate the curriculum to enhance instruction.
• Be open to new ideas.

Achievements we have earned at Hidden Hills are:

• A+ recognized school
• Highly Performing School
• Arizona PTA Educator of the Year - 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005
• Arizona PTA Support Staff of the Year - 2003, 2004
• Arizona PTA Support Staff of the Year Honorable Mention - 2005
• Arizona PTA Volunteer of the Year - 2003, 2004, 2005
• Recipient of Christa McAuliffe Fellowship to support Garden Science Class
• Recipient of many grants including:  WalMart, Sams Club, Arizona Game and Fish, City of Phoenix, Wells Fargo to support various programs at Hidden Hills
• Six teachers and principal named in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers
• Five Cox Cable in the Classroom awards for integration of technology into instruction
• Strong parent and community involvement, PTSA, volunteers in classrooms, adopted grandparents

We, at Hidden Hills, are very proud of our family and accomplishments.  If you would like to take a tour of our school, contact the office at 602-449-3100 or click here for a virtual tour.  Please contact Lynette Geake, principal, with questions.