Granite School District
The Granite School District spreads across central Salt Lake County, Utah, serving West Valley City, Taylorsville, South Salt Lake, and Holladay; Kearns, Magna and Millcreek Township; and parts of West Jordan, Murray and Cottonwood Heights. About 67,000 students are enrolled in its programs ranging from kindergarten to twelfth grade. It operates 8 high schools, 16 junior high schools, 62 elementary schools, as well as several specialty schools. This makes Granite the second largest school district in the state of Utah behind Alpine School District in Utah County. Other school districts in the area include the Salt Lake City School District and the Murray School District.
High schools
- Cottonwood, Murray
- Academy for Math, Engineering, and Science (Charter School attached to Cottonwood High School)
- Cyprus, Magna
- Granger, West Valley City
- Connection (formerly Granite Peaks; alternative school), South Salt Lake. Multiple campuses:
- Cottonwood Campus, Granger Campus, Granite Education Center Campus, Hunter Campus, Kearns Campus, Skyline Campus, Taylorsville Campus
- Hunter, West Valley City
- Kearns, Kearns
- Olympus, Holladay
- Skyline, Millcreek
- Taylorsville, Taylorsville
Former
- Granite, South Salt Lake (closed in 2009)
Junior high schools
- Bennion, Taylorsville
- Bonneville, Holladay
- Brockbank, Magna
- Churchill, Millcreek
- Eisenhower, Taylorsville
- Evergreen, Millcreek
- Granite Park, South Salt Lake
- Hunter, West Valley City
- Jefferson, Kearns
- Kearns, Kearns
- Kennedy, West Valley City
- Matheson, Magna
- Olympus, Holladay
- Valley, West Valley City
- Wasatch, Millcreek
- West Lake, West Valley City
Elementary schools
- Academy Park, West Valley City
- Arcadia, Taylorsville
- Armstrong Academy, West Valley City
- Bacchus, Kearns
- Beehive, Kearns
- Bennion, Taylorsville
- Bridger, West Jordan
- Copper Hills, Magna
- Cottonwood, Holladay
- Crestview, Holladay
- Driggs, Holladay
- Eastwood, Millcreek
- Elk Run, Magna
- Farnsworth, West Valley City
- Fox Hills, Taylorsville
- Fremont, Taylorsville
- Frost, Robert, West Valley City
- Gourley, David, Kearns
- Granger, West Valley City
- Hillsdale, West Valley City
- Hillside, West Valley City
- Hunter, West Valley City
- Jackling, West Valley City
- Lake Ridge, Magna
- Lincoln, South Salt Lake
- Magna, Magna
- Mill Creek, Millcreek
- Monroe, West Valley City
- Morningside, Millcreek
- Moss, James E., Millcreek
- Oakridge, Millcreek
- Oakwood, Holladay
- Oquirrh Hills, Kearns
- Orchard, West Valley City
- Penn, William, Millcreek
- Pioneer, West Valley City
- Pleasant Green, Magna
- Plymouth, Taylorsville
- Redwood, West Valley City
- Rolling Meadows, West Valley City
- Roosevelt, Theodore, Millcreek
- Rosecrest, Millcreek Township
- Sandburg, Carl, West Valley City
- Silver Hills, West Valley City
- Smith, Calvin, Taylorsville
- South Kearns, Kearns
- Spring Lane, Holladay
- Stansbury, West Valley City
- Taylorsville, Taylorsville
- Truman, Harry S., West Valley City
- Twin Peaks, Murray
- Upland Terrace, Millcreek
- Valley Crest, West Valley City
- Vista, Taylorsville
- Westbrook, Taylorsville
- Western Hills, Kearns
- West Kearns, Kearns
- West Valley, West Valley City
- Whittier, West Valley City
- Wilson, Woodrow, South Salt Lake
- Woodstock, Murray
- Wright, West Valley City
Special education schools
- Artec
- Granite Peaks
- Granite Technical Institute (GTI)
- Hartvigsen
- Jones Center
- Success Charter School
- Wasatch Youth Center
History
The district was created in 1904 with 4,258 students.[1] Its name and original boundaries were taken from the Granite Stake of the LDS Church, which at the time spanned nearly the entire breadth of the Salt Lake Valley from Mill Creek in the east to Hunter in the west, and from roughly Sugar House in the north to Bennion in the south.[2]
References
- ↑ Fairclough, W. Glen Jr. "Granite School District Agency History". Utah Department of Administrative Services, Division of Archives and Records. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
- ↑ Plewe, Brandon S. (2014). Mapping Mormonism: an atlas of Mormon history (2nd ed.). Provo, Utah: BYU Press. p. 128. ISBN 978-0-8425-2879-5.
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