Granite School District

The Granite School District[1] spreads across central Salt Lake County, Utah, serving West Valley City, Millcreek, Taylorsville, South Salt Lake, and Holladay; Kearns and Magna Townships; 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 9 high schools, 15 junior high schools, 62 elementary schools, as well as several specialty schools. This makes Granite the third largest school district in the state of Utah behind Alpine School District in Utah County and Davis County School District. Other school districts in the area include the Salt Lake City School District and the Murray School District.

Granite School District
Location
Salt Lake Valley, Utah
District information
Established1904
SuperintendentRichard Nye (2021-present)
School board
  • Connie Burgess
  • Terry Bawden
  • Nicole McDermott
  • Kris Nguyen
  • Todd E. Zenger
Chair of the boardKaryn Winder

All the following information is from the Granite School District website[2]

High schools edit

Former edit

Junior high schools edit

Former edit

  • Brockbank, Magna (closed as a junior high school in 2016, campus is now the Brockbank Campus of Cyprus High School)

Elementary schools edit

Former edit

Specialty Schools and Programs edit

History edit

The district was created in 1904 with 4,258 students.[3] 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.[4]

In 2024, the district drew national attention after a school board member publicly and falsely accused a high school athlete of being transgender, leading to the student in question receiving so many threats that the school had to provide her with police protection.[5][6][7]

References edit

  1. ^ "Granite School District". Granite School District. Retrieved November 11, 2020.
  2. ^ "Granite School District". Granite School District. Retrieved November 13, 2020.
  3. ^ Fairclough, W. Glen Jr. "Granite School District Agency History". Utah Department of Administrative Services, Division of Archives and Records. Retrieved December 29, 2014.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "Utah school board member Natalie Cline questions high school athlete's gender, causing social media uproar". Salt Late Tribune.
  6. ^ "Utah school district takes steps to protect teen after school board member appears to question girl's gender on social media". CNN.
  7. ^ "Utah official faces calls to resign after falsely suggesting teen girl is transgender". NBC.

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