The Agua Fria Union High School District (AFUHSD) is a high school district serving Goodyear, Buckeye, Avondale, Waddell and Litchfield Park, Arizona. It was founded in 1955. The district has five high schools and operates a non-traditional program to allow students to recover lost credits. History The city of Avondale lacked a school district; as such, the city spent $77,743 to Tolleson Union High School, Litchfield Park High School, and Phoenix Technical School to provide education to its high school students. The Avondale Elementary School District, Litchfield Park High School District, and the Tolleson Union High School District met to address the issue in 1952, with the Avondale and Litchfield Park districts agreeing to establish a union school district. Agua Fria Union High School District No. 216 was formed in 1955. A year later, the district's first high school, Agua Fria High School, opened in Avondale, dividing the population of Litchfield High School. Doug Wilson served as superintendent from 1999 until 2006; he took a position at Marana Unified School District in 2008. Dudley Butts became superintendent until his resignation in 2009, when Millennium High School principal Dennis Runyan became interim superintendent. Runyan served as superintendent until 2020, when he was replaced by Mark Yslas. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the AFUHSD implemented distance learning, affecting high school traditions. Communities The Agua Fria Union High School District serves the communities and neighborhoods of Goodyear, Buckeye, Avondale and Litchfield Park, Arizona, as well as the unincorporated community of Waddell, in what encompasses the West Valley. In May 2022, the AFUHSD proposed an amendment to incorporate Canyon View High School into the neighboring city of Buckeye, allowing the school to hire a full-time resource officer through the Buckeye Police Department. Students Academics The Arizona Department of Education has recorded the ACT scores for each individual student since 2018, aggregating them into gender, race, and socioeconomic background, and dividing the scores into four performance levels. In the 2021-2022 school year, 26% of students were at Performance Level 1—the lowest of the four levels, 29% of students were at Performance Level 2, 34% of students were at Performance Level 3, and 10% of students were at Performance Level 4, for the English Language Arts standard. For the math standard, 35% of students were at Performance Level 1, 30% were at Performance Level 2, 25% of students were at Performance Level 3, and 9% of students