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Education

See also: List of school districts in Phoenix, Arizona

Public education in Scottsdale is provided for by the Scottsdale Unified School District, which serves 26,000 students in 33 schools and employs 3,000, including 1,700 teachers. The district incorporates most of Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, and parts of Tempe and east Phoenix. The district's 33 schools include five high schools: Arcadia High School, Chaparral High School, Coronado High School, Desert Mountain High School, and Saguaro High School.

The primary institution of higher education in the city is Scottsdale Community College, which opened in 1970 on the Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Reservation. In 1999, the school opened a second campus in the Scottsdale Airpark allowing it to serve the business community and north Scottsdale. Other institutions of higher education with locations in Scottsdale include the University of Phoenix and the Scottsdale Culinary Institute. Many students at nearby Arizona State University in Tempe also live in Scottsdale and commute.

Scottsdale has a main branch and four branches within the Scottsdale Public Library System.

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