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Desert Canyon Elementary School to get new outdoor ‘PE classroom’

$2 million facility will have no walls

Desert Canyon Elementary’s new, $2 million physical education facility will have no walls.

(Courtesy Scottsdale Unified School District)

Desert Canyon Elementary School is getting a new gym ... sort of.

The new facility will have all the accouterments you would expect in a gym: a basketball court, audio and visual systems, lights, a roof, etc. However, it will be missing one thing most gyms have: walls.

The Scottsdale Unified School District Governing Board approved on its consent agenda Dec. 12 spending $2 million for an “outdoor PE Improvement Project.”

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