Baby Fox Academy

Desert Sunrise High School opened in 2022 as Maricopa Unified School District's newest high school, home of the Golden Hawks. We now enroll 1,308 students in grades 9 to 12 on North Murphy Road, with an average class size of 25 students. Students build their schedules from our course catalogs, and our Career and Technical Education program gives grades 9 to 12 hands-on career preparation alongside core academics. Our College and Career Readiness team helps students plan for what comes after graduation, and our library and bookstore support daily coursework. Outside class, students join Student Council and the National Honor Society, and our athletes compete in football, flag football, girls volleyball, golf, swimming and cross country. As part of Maricopa Unified, families can use district bus transportation and free and reduced-price meals, and the district runs tuition-based community, developmental and dual language preschools for younger siblings.

Heritage Academy Maricopa serves grades 6–12 at 41000 West Heroes Way. This tuition-free public charter campus combines English, history, mathematics, and science with classical languages, music, fitness, and electives. The school connects academic work with character development, American history, and the nation's founding ideals. Classes follow an A/B schedule from Monday through Thursday, with no Friday classes. Students can explore college credit through dual-enrollment options with Rio Salado College and Central Arizona College, and join athletics and other campus activities. Heritage also operates a separate K–5 Maricopa campus; this Heroes Way listing covers only its middle and high school grades.

Sequoia Pathway Academy is a tuition-free public K–12 charter school in Maricopa, Arizona, and one of the campuses in the Edkey Inc. charter network. Roughly 600 students attend on a single combined campus, with traditional academics offered alongside pathways for neurodivergent learners, homeschool support, dual enrollment, credit recovery, accelerated learning, and a microschool option for families who want a smaller setting. Sequoia Pathway has been operating in Maricopa since 2009 and runs about 15 clubs and athletics programs each year, with no tuition required for Arizona residents.