School History
Mascot: Double-Helix Dragons
School Colors: Purple and Green
Year School Opened: 2006
Bioscience High School opened its doors in October of 2007. The beautiful and innovative campus is located in Phoenix's downtown Biotechnology Center and is open to students throughout the Phoenix Union High School District. The campus, which was designed by The Orcutt-Winslow Partnership won the American School Board Journal's Learning by Design, 2009 Grand Prize Award. The school received this award for its classrooms, collaborative learning spaces, and progressive design.
Mision* Statement:
BHS provides a rigorous, collaborative, and relevant academic program emphasizing an innovative, problem-based curriculum that develops literacy in the sciences, mathematics, and the arts, thus cultivating critical thinkers, creative problem-solvers, and compassionate citizens, who are able to thrive in our increasingly complex and technological communities.
*Mision = mission + vision