Editing Clarkdale, Arizona (section)

==Education==
Much of Clarkdale is in the [[Clarkdale-Jerome Elementary School District]]<!--ELM 00004-->.<ref name=CensusSDMap2020>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st04_az/schooldistrict_maps/c04025_yavapai/DC20SD_C04025.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Yavapai County, AZ|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|pages=1-2 (PDF pp. 2-3/3)|access-date=2024-12-28}} - [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st04_az/schooldistrict_maps/c04025_yavapai/DC20SD_C04025_SD2MS.txt Text list] - Includes boundaries of municipalities and CDPs, as well as high school district boundaries.</ref> That district operates Clarkdale–Jerome School in Clarkdale, a facility which also takes students from [[Jerome, Arizona|Jerome]]. The public school [[K-8 school|has enrollment from kindergarten to eighth grade]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Clarkdale Jerome School Page|url=http://www.cjsd.k12.az.us/school.htm|publisher=Clarkdale–Jerome School|access-date=March 20, 2013}}</ref> A portion of Clarkdale is in the [[Cottonwood-Oak Creek Elementary School District]].<!--ELM 02370-->.<ref name=CensusSDMap2020/>

All of Clarkdale is in [[Mingus Union High School District]]<!--Census code SEC 05070-->.<ref name=CensusSDMap2020/> [[Mingus Union High School]] in [[Cottonwood, Arizona|Cottonwood]] takes Clarkdale high school students.<ref>{{cite news|last=Wright|first=Philip|title=Historical Societies Receive High School Annuals|url=http://verdenews.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=42601|work=Verde Independent|publisher=Western News&Info|date=June 24, 2011|access-date=March 20, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120422045921/http://verdenews.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=42601|archive-date=April 22, 2012}}</ref>  There are also charter schools in Cottonwood.  In addition, Yavapai College has a community college campus in Clarkdale. The campus is home to the  newly opened Southwest Wine Center.

Historically, Clarkdale had an elementary school, located in Lower Clarkdale, a junior high school, located at the top of Miller's Hill in Upper Clarkdale, and a high school, next to the junior high school. Clarkdale High School combined with Mingus High School in Jerome in 1960 to form Mingus Union High School, then located in Jerome. The combined high school adopted the name of the Jerome school and the colors of the Clarkdale school. The school then moved to Cottonwood in 1972.<ref>{{cite news|title=A Mountainous Journey: Mingus Union High School Moves from Jerome|url=http://verdenews.com/main.asp?SectionID=201&subsectionID=675&articleID=25150|date=February 11, 2008|work=Verde Independent|publisher=Western News&Info|access-date=March 13, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120721025144/http://verdenews.com/main.asp?SectionID=201&subsectionID=675&articleID=25150|archive-date=July 21, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1983, the junior high school burned down.  A new elementary school was built, becoming the K-8 school at 16th and Main Streets in Upper Clarkdale in 1985.