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Guiding Principles
Verde Valley School educates students for college and for life by encouraging them to become intellectually curious, academically accomplished and creatively expressive. The program fosters intercultural understanding and world citizenship, environmental stewardship, the value of physical labor, and service to humanity with a willing spirit.
Academic Excellence
World Citizenship
Environmental Stewardship
Service to Others
The Value of Physical Labor
Academic Excellence
VVS is an IB World School committed to rigorous, student-centered learning. Our hands-on approach to the International Baccalaureate develops independent thinkers who are guided by skilled teachers and prepared to excel at universities around the world.
VVS has a 100% IB diploma pass rate three years running.
World Citizenship
Founded in 1948 with a deeply international vision, VVS has always believed that education doesn't stop at the border. Students graduate as ethical, globally aware individuals — skilled in community building, appreciative of cultural difference, and ready to participate fully in the world.
Environmental Stewardship
The verde in Verde Valley School is intentional. Students and faculty work together to reduce waste, grow food, and conduct real environmental research that informs how the school operates. The campus garden is organic, student-farmed, and a direct food source for the dining hall.
Service to Others
Hamilton Warren founded VVS to teach "the great responsibility for your fellow man." Today students log thousands of hours supporting communities from Arizona to Mexico to Malawi — not as a requirement, but as a way of life.
The Value of Physical Labor
Many parts of this campus were built by students. Through the Work Jobs program, students complete daily chores alongside faculty, and each summer alumni return to build, repair, and improve. Ownership of a place changes how you inhabit it.
Verde Valley School
Verde Valley School is an International Baccalaureate boarding and day high school for students in grades 9-12.
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Photo Credit to Arabella Media, John Sheedy, and others.