Granite School District

Granite School District
Location
Salt Lake Valley, Utah
District information
Established	1904
Superintendent	Richard Nye (2021-present)
School board	Connie Burgess Terry Bawden Nicole McDermott Kris Nguyen Todd E. Zenger
Chair of the board	Karyn Winder

The Granite School District is a public school district spread 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.

All the following information is from the Granite School District website^[1]

High schools

• Cottonwood, Murray
  • Academy for Math, Engineering, and Science (Charter School attached to Cottonwood High School)
• Cyprus, Magna
  • Cyprus Brockbank Campus
• 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
• Kearns, Kearns
• Hunter, West Valley City
• Olympus, Holladay
• Skyline, Millcreek
• Taylorsville, Taylorsville

Former

• Granite, South Salt Lake (closed in 2009)

Junior high schools

Former

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

Elementary schools

Former

• Sandburg, Carl, West Valley City (closed in 2018)
• Oquirrh Hills, Kearns (closed in 2019)
• Westbrook, Taylorsville (closed in 2019)

Specialty Schools and Programs

• Granite Peaks, Salt Lake City
• Granite Technical Institute (GTI), Salt Lake City
• Hartvigsen, Taylorsville, Utah
• Granite Transition Services, Salt Lake City
• YESS Program, Salt Lake City
• Granite Alternative Placement Program (GAPP), Holladay, Utah
• Preschool

History

The district was created in 1904 with 4,258 students.^[2] 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.^[3]

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.^[4][5][6]

References

External links

• Granite School District 

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This page was last edited on 4 April 2024, at 23:38