Poston Butte High School is a high school in San Tan Valley, Arizona in the Florence Unified School District. It opened July 20, 2009.Location and feeder schoolsLocationPoston Butte High School is located in San Tan Valley, an unincorporated area of Pinal County. San Tan Valley is serviced by three unified school districts: Florence, J. O. Combs, and Coolidge. Poston Butte is part of the Florence Unified School District. The district is geographically large and divided into two distinct areas: the greater Florence area and the more highly populated Hunt Highway corridor. PBHS is located in the Hunt Highway area and is 20.4 miles from Florence High School and the Florence USD district offices.Feeder schoolsFive Florence USD elementary schools feed into Poston Butte High School: Circle Cross Ranch K-8, Skyline Ranch K-8, Walker Butte K-8, Copper Basin K-8, and Magma Ranch K-8.One-to-one computingPoston Butte High School does not employ textbooks. Instead, the school's one-to-one computing policy provides a laptop to each student in lieu of textbooks.The first school to use one-to-one computing in Arizona was Empire High School, which started doing so in 2005. Florence district officials worked with Empire to implement a similar program at Poston Butte in 2009. After successful implementation at Poston Butte, it was expanded to Florence High School in 2010.
