Thunderbird High School

1750 West Thunderbird Road

School District

Glendale Union High
Grade

9-12
Teacher/Student Ratio

1:24
Type

public

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Reviews

Submitted by parent on December 04, 2022

High School is challenging no matter what school your student attends. We love that Thunderbird High School has a leadership culture where Juniors and Seniors are strongly encouraged to welcome and support the underclass students. In programs like Band and the NJROTC our experience is that Juniors and Seniors actively work to include, mentor, and train the Freshmen and Sophomores. Our experience with teachers and administrators has been excellent. Yes, there have been challenges with assignments and grades, and we have been able to work through each of those challenges with our teachers. The school has many activity options and students are strongly encouraged to participate in extracurricular activities to get the full High School experience. In our experience, Thunderbird has strong family and community support with many social media booster and parent association accounts plus a Thunderbird Parent Association.com website. We feel welcome at sport games and at student performances. We love Thunderbird High School. Go Titans!
Submitted by parent on November 13, 2021

Our son is an honors student at Thunderbird currently. He has a 504 Plan, which his counselor does a good job helping communicate and coordinate with his teachers. In our experience, the district strives to give equal opportunities to all students. Arizona demands a lot of its educators, yet pays notoriously low wages. As a result, higher paying states annually lure the best away. TBird, however, manages to keep its teachers longer, which lends to a stable learning culture.
Submitted by parent on August 09, 2019

Child is a recent graduate and had great teachers all 4 years. my only complaint with the school is that their "career center" is very mediocre and does little to help kids research post high school things. Very hard for kids to get one on one help, encouragement, advise on continuing their education.
Submitted by parent on August 09, 2019

As the parent of two graduates in the last five years, I would rate this school 5 stars. I graduated from here in 1981, it was average, but I see why it now consistently churns out national merit scholars and Speech and Debate among the best in the state. Ignore the 1* Star ratings...most likely from students and parents that don’t have “the right stuff” to be good students ready to contribute positively to this great COMMUNITY.
Submitted by parent on January 23, 2018

The past 3 years have been great. I would recommend this school.
Submitted by parent on August 21, 2017

Garbage is a pretty good way to describe it.
Submitted by student on August 18, 2017

It was the best four years of my life great teachers
Submitted by other on August 18, 2017

1. This school seems to be filled with uneducated staff members. Something was recently brought to my attention and I feel that this school should be shut down because of it's lack of (knowledge on history) .
Submitted by parent on January 25, 2017

Probably one of the worst admin teams out there! Assume every student is guilty. Hands down discipline without input from parents. Will not consider parent feelings in decisions!
Submitted by parent on May 23, 2016

We've had 1 son graduate with honors and win the state championship in football in his graduating year. He loved his time at Thunderbird as well as his teachers.We currently have another son going into his junior year, following in his brothers footsteps, playing football and taking AP classes. He is doing well also and loves it there.