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Humboldt Unified School District

School district in Arizona, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ5940425 ↗
Source-derived summary

Humboldt Unified School District is a school district based in Prescott Valley, Arizona, United States.

It includes most of Prescott Valley, all of Dewey Humboldt, small portions of Chino Valley and Mayer. It also includes Cherry.

It has about 5,800 students, 10 schools, and 800 employees. The district's superintendent is Dr. Christine Griffin.

It operates the following schools:

Bradshaw Mountain High School

Bradshaw Mountain Middle School

Glassford Hill Middle School

Coyote Springs Elementary School

Granville Elementary School

Humboldt Elementary School

Lake Valley Elementary School

Liberty K-8 Traditional School

Mountain View Elementary School

Bright Futures Preschool

References

Rhoden, Paula (July 24, 2008). "HUSD board focuses on raising achievement levels". The Daily Courier. Archived from the original on July 15, 2011.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Humboldt Unified School District” as school district in Arizona, United States. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008, 2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Humboldt, Unified and School can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as school district in Arizona, United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 13, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5940425. VIAF identifies the subject as 256835657. The Library of Congress control number is no2012113961. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2008 and 2011.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Humboldt Unified School District”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Humboldt Unified School District primary sources, Humboldt Unified School District archive and Humboldt research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Humboldt Unified School District”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Humboldt Unified School District” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.