APACHE JUNCTION, Ariz — Great Hearts Academies broke ground on its 25th Arizona campus, planting a shovel into Pinal County for the first time. The ceremony at the Blossom Rock master-planned community in Apache Junction featured students wielding kid-sized shovels and hard hats, a detail the organization says reflects exactly who the school is being built for.
Great Hearts Blossom Rock is set to open in fall 2027 as a tuition-free K–5 academy. The land itself was donated by Brookfield Residential, the developer behind the surrounding neighborhood, a partnership that Dan Scoggin, Great Hearts co-founder and academies officer, describes as a first for the network in Arizona.
“Children can walk to the school. This is going to be one of our most residentially embedded community schools, “said Scoggin…