Desert Mountain High School is a public high school in northeast Scottsdale, Arizona which opened in the fall of 1995. It is the newest of five high schools in the Scottsdale Unified School District. The school has a joint-use city library facility, four computer labs, media studio, theater, college/career center, yearbook/newspaper production labs, child development department, business-regulated curriculum, off-school campus medical education facilities and extensive athletic facilities.Desert Mountain has a two-semester scheduling format to serve its student population of almost 2,300 students in grades nine through twelve.In 1998, Desert Mountain became an International Baccalaureate Member School and is a magnet program for the Scottsdale Unified School District. Desert Mountain offers students the choice of standard, honors, Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate classes. Special programs are available for gifted, English Language Learners and Special Education students. Extensive vocational programs are available through a partnership with the East Valley Institute of Technology .LibraryThe school's library is shared with the Scottsdale Public Library system as the Palomino Branch Library. It opened with the rest of the school in August 1995. The library features 18,000sqft of space. At the time of its opening, the then-50,000-volume collection was 60% owned by the library and 40% by the school. It was the district's first such combined library. Library hours when school is in session are Monday- Thursday 7:15 am to 7 pm, Friday 7:15 am to 6 pm and Sunday 1 pm to 5 pm. Library hours when school is not in session are Monday- Thursday 9 am to 7 pm, Friday 10 am to 6 pm and Sunday 1 pm to 5 pm.
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