Peoria School Closings Today — Live Status & Delays (Arizona)

Are Peoria schools closed today? Check live status below — updated every 10 minutes.

Live status monitored for Peoria Unified, Deer Valley Unified, Dysart, and Washington Elementary school districts.

How Peoria School Closures Are Announced

Peoria Unified School District (PUSD), the largest district serving the city, posts closure and delay notices on its official website at peoriaunified.org and pushes the same information to families through ParentSquare, its districtwide notification platform that delivers alerts by app, text, email, and phone call. Students receive a parallel version of these alerts through the district’s StudentSquare app. When a closure or delay is weather-related, PUSD typically aims to make the call and notify families the evening before or by early morning — families who keep their ParentVUE contact information current tend to get the fastest notice, since “urgent” alerts through ParentSquare override individual notification preferences.

Because Peoria sits in the same Phoenix TV market as the rest of the Valley, local coverage of closures also comes from 12News (KPNX), ABC15 (KNXV), and FOX10 (KSAZ), all of which maintain running closures pages during active weather events. Neighboring districts that also serve Peoria-area families — Deer Valley Unified, Dysart, and Washington Elementary — announce independently through their own websites and family-communication systems, which is why this page checks all four districts rather than just one.

Weather Risks That Can Trigger Peoria School Closures

• Dust storms (haboobs): Sudden, wall-like dust storms during the summer months can cut visibility to near zero along Peoria’s stretches of the Loop 101 and Grand Avenue corridor, prompting districts to delay dismissal or hold buses.
• Monsoon thunderstorms: From roughly June through September, fast-moving monsoon storms can bring flash flooding, lightning, and localized power outages that affect school operations, particularly around washes near the Skunk Creek and New River drainages.
• Extreme heat: Excessive-heat warnings, common in Peoria during peak summer, can affect outdoor activities, athletics, and bus routes even when classrooms stay open.
• Flash flooding: Peoria’s low-lying washes and retention areas near Lake Pleasant Regional Park can flood quickly during heavy monsoon rain, sometimes affecting bus routes and student drop-off routes.
• Winter freeze events: Rare hard-freeze or icy-road mornings can still delay start times, since the region has little de-icing infrastructure compared with colder states.
• High wind advisories: Strong pre-monsoon or spring wind events can down power lines and tree limbs, occasionally affecting individual campuses more than others.

Frequently Asked Questions

Peoria Unified School District — School Roster

High Schools

• Cactus High School
• Centennial High School
• Ironwood High School
• Liberty High School
• Peoria High School
• Raymond S. Kellis High School
• Sunrise Mountain High School
• Peoria eCampus Virtual High School
• Peoria Flex Academy

K-8 & Elementary Schools

• Alta Loma Elementary
• Apache Elementary
• Canyon Elementary
• Cheyenne Elementary
• Copperwood Elementary
• Cotton Boll Elementary
• Country Meadows Elementary
• Coyote Hills Elementary
• Desert Harbor Elementary
• Desert Palms Elementary
• Desert Valley Elementary
• Foothills Elementary
• Frontier Elementary
• Heritage Elementary
• Ira A. Murphy Elementary
• Kachina Elementary
• Lake Pleasant Elementary
• Marshall Ranch Elementary
• Oakwood Elementary
• Oasis Elementary
• Parkridge Elementary
• Paseo Verde Elementary
• Peoria Elementary
• Peoria Traditional School
• Pioneer Elementary
• Sunset Heights Elementary

Peoria Unified operates 44 campuses in total; this roster reflects schools confirmed via the district’s official site and independent school-directory sources as of this page’s last review. Verify the complete, current list at peoriaunified.org.