The Peoria Education Foundation is committed to assisting learners at all levels of their education. Scholarship programs have been established to enable students to continue their post-secondary education. Scholarships are awarded to recognize outstanding accomplishments as well as to provide encouragement and incentives as students continue to work toward meeting their educational goals.

Each spring, the Foundation Board celebrates the scholarship recipients at an awards reception. 

The Peoria Education Foundation awarded $90,000 in scholarships to 32 Peoria Unified high school seniors this year and gave awards to eight additional students. Congratulations to the following students:

Against All Odds Scholarship recipients:

• Alexander Krause (Sunrise Mountain)
• Aneesa Patel (Liberty)
• Draven Learned (Peoria)
• Edward Brehm (Peoria)
• Faith Wheeler Perez (Sunrise Mountain)
• Frank Cappello (Liberty, MET)
• Jaxon Davis (Peoria, MET)
• Lauren Wen (Centennial)
• Lillian McAnerney (Ironwood)
• Luke Hensel (Liberty)
• Madilyn Heid (Sunrise Mountain)
• Nash Jensen (Sunrise Mountain)
• Sean Davenport (Cactus)
• Sierralyn Waelde (Centennial)

Community Service Scholarship recipients:

• Allison Black (Liberty)
• Aneesa Patel (Liberty)
• Corona Annala (Peoria)
• Emily Reynolds (Sunrise Mountain)
• Lauren Dagny Davis (Liberty)

Joseph McCord Memorial Scholarship recipients:

• Edward Brehm (Peoria)
• Haarika Raavi (Liberty)

Dr. Denton Santarelli Leadership Scholarship recipients:

• Alexis Jones (Ironwood)
• Allison Black (Liberty)
• Isabella Prey (Sunrise Mountain)
• Jaylei Miller (Centennial)
• Luke Hensel (Liberty)

Project Unify Scholarship & Award recipients:

• Grace Starr (Ironwood), Partner - Scholarship
• Ciara Millican (Ironwood), Athlete – Class ring
• Reggie Dolfo (Ironwood), Athlete – Class ring
• Savanna Olson (Liberty), Partner - Scholarship
• Rilee Lester (Liberty), Athlete – Class ring
• O’Bari Kunenu (Liberty), Athlete – Class ring
• Arthur Burgess (Raymond S. Kellis), Partner - Scholarship
• Marcus Hodge (Raymond S. Kellis), Athlete – Class ring
• Xavier Flores (Raymond S. Kellis), Athlete – Class ring
• Peyton Sweeney (Sunrise Mountain), Partner - Scholarship
• Sophia Eskew (Sunrise Mountain), Athlete – Class ring
• Hyunwoo Choi (Sunrise Mountain), Athlete – Class ring

Peoria FFA Baskett Scholarship recipients, from Peoria High School:

• Anna Gerow
• Daniela Garay
• Emily Madrid
• Evelin Ramirez Zavala
• Giovanna Soto
• Niveah Watson

Each year, the Foundation opens the scholarship applications in mid-October and the deadline to submit them is typically right before Winter Break. Applications are reviewed in the spring and scholarship recipients are notified before Spring Break.