Kyrene School District is a K-8 school district that serves parts of Tempe, Chandler, Guadalupe, and Phoenix, Arizona, as well as portions of the Gila River Indian Community within Maricopa County.

It has nineteen elementary schools and six middle schools.

The district office, the Ben Furlong Education Center, is located at the intersection of Warner Rd.

and Kyrene Rd.

in Tempe.

The district is overseen by Superintendent Jan Vesely.

Tempe (Oidbaḍ in Pima), also known as Hayden's Ferry during the territorial times of Arizona, is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, with the Census Bureau reporting a 2010 population of 161,719.

The city is named after the Vale of Tempe in Greece.

Tempe is located in the East Valley section of metropolitan Phoenix; it is bordered by Phoenix and Guadalupe on the west, Scottsdale on the north, Chandler on the south, and Mesa on the east.

Tempe was the location of US Airways Group's corporate headquarters until December 9, 2013, when US Airways and American Airlines merged to form American Airlines Group.

The headquarters for the combined airline moved to American's headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas.

Tempe is also the home of Arizona State University.

Phoenix is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arizona.

With 1,563,025 people, Phoenix is the List of United States cities by population|sixth most populous city nationwide, the most populous state capital in the United States, and the only state capital with a population of more than one million residents.

Chandler is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, and is a prominent suburb of the Phoenix, Arizona, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA).

It is bordered to the north and west by Tempe, to the north by Mesa, to the west by Phoenix, to the south by the Gila River Indian Community, and to the east by Gilbert.

As of July 2015, the population was 260,828 according to the United States Census Bureau, According to the city's official website, Chandler's Transportation & Development Department estimated the population, as of May 2016, to be 247,328.

It also has satellite locations for many technology companies, including Intel and Orbital ATK.

The Phoenix Metropolitan Area – often referred to as the Valley of the Sun, the Salt River Valley or Metro Phoenix – is a metropolitan area, centered on the city of Phoenix, that includes much of the central part of the U.S. State of Arizona.

The United States Census Bureau designates the area as the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), defining it as Maricopa and Pinal counties.

As of the Census Bureau's 2015 population estimates, the Valley had 4,574,351 residents, making it the 12th largest Metropolitan Area in the nation by population.

The gross domestic product of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area was $215 billion in 2014, 15th largest amongst metro areas in the United States.