Education & Schools in Park City
General School Stats
Park City Enrollment total: 4,261
Elementary (4 schools): 1,873
Middle (2 schools): 1,064
High School (1 school): 1,277
Park City High School was rated among the top 100 public schools in the nation. (Newsweek, March 30, 2004)
Park City
There are three school districts in Summit County: North Summit, Park City and South Summit. The Park City School District decided to realign grades in order to accommodate a growing community so effective August 2005 in the following configuration: Parley's Park Elementary (K-5), McPolin Elementary (K-5), Trailside Elementary (K-5), Jeremy Ranch Elementary (K-5), Treasure Mountain Middle School (8-9), Ecker Hill Middle School (6-7) and Park City High School (10-12). North and South Summit School Districts have three schools each. North Summit School District, located in Coalville, includes North Summit Elementary (K-4), North Summit Middle School (5-8), and North Summit High School (9-12). The South Summit School District in Kamas is comprised of South Summit Elementary (K-6), South Summit Middle School (7-9), and South Summit High School (10-12).
Curriculum
All of the schools offer the state regulated core curriculum. All elementary schools are required to offer reading, math, science and social studies. They also offer physical education and computer classes. Core curriculum for the middle schools covers language arts (writing and reading), math, science, social studies (history), healthy lifestyles (health and physical education) and information technology (computers). Expanded curriculum includes drama, music, band, French & Spanish, visual arts, dance, shop, home economics, and life skills classes. Outdoor education programs allow students to experience nature and hiking as well as learning about environmental issues through slides, lectures and hands-on projects.
High School
The high schools offer all required subjects along with a wide variety of electives. Students are encouraged to take additional classes in core subjects, such as math and science, as well as advanced classes to prepare for college. For those students who may not attend college, the schools offer a variety of technical and vocational subjects such as nursing, mechanics and computer applications. The list of classes offered varies by school - please see the following pages for specific curriculum lists.
Park City Ski Educational Foundation
Because of the importance of skiing in the area, Park City High School has a specialized program known as the Park City Ski Educational Foundation. The ski program, which was founded in 1980, provides students who are officially on the Park City Ski Team an opportunity to train on a daily basis while continuing their education. During the winter months participants attend classes in the morning and are dismissed at noon for on-the-hill training. Three times a week ski team members return to the high school to meet with a fulltime, certified tutor. Many of these students also attend classes during the summer.
Elementary Schools - Grades 1-5
McPolin Elementary School
2270 Kearns Blvd.
Park City, Utah 84060
(435) 645-5630 phone
(435) 645-5633 fax
Jeremy Ranch Elementary School
5060 Rasmussen Road
Park City, Utah 84098
(435) 645-5670 phone
(435) 645-5675 fax
Trailside Elementary School
5700 Trailside Drive
Park City, Utah 84098
(435) 645-5680 phone
(435) 645-5681 fax
Parley's Park Elementary School
1002 Silver Springs Road
Park City, Utah 84098
(435) 645-5620 phone
(435) 645-5623 fax
Middle Schools - Grades 6-8
Treasure Mountain Middle School
2530 Kearns Blvd.
Park City, Utah 84060
(435) 645-5640 phone
(435) 645-5644 fax
Ecker Hill Middle School
2465 West Kilby Road
Park City, Utah 84098
(435) 645-5610 phone
High Schools - Grades 9-12
Park City High School
1750 Kearns Blvd.
Park City, Utah 84060
(435) 645-5650 phone
(435) 645-5658 fax
Park City Private Schools
The Colby School (Pre-8)
P.O.Box 1147
3770 N Hwy. 224
Park City, Utah 84060
(435) 655-3966 phone
Carden Christian Academy (Pre-8 )
3120 W. Pinebrook Road
Park City, Utah 84098
(435) 649-2791 phone
The Winter Sports School
P.O. Box 1998
Park City, Utah 84060
(435) 649-8760 phone
School Lunches Look to Achieve National Health Recognition
According to the director of food services
Kathleen Britton, Park City schools distribute about 2,800 lunches to
students each day. With administrators projecting district-wide
enrollment to be about 4,200, more than 60 percent of students are
expected to receive lunch from among menu options at their schools.
"Last
year we were rated number one in the state for our menus," Britton
said.
While planning school lunches, Britton consults the national
and state-mandated guidelines. Utah's Child Nutrition Program provides
guidelines to target quantities of fat, sodium, protein, carbohydrates
and calories recommended for students each day. Each meal is evaluated
through a nutritional analysis to ensure it meets the necessary
standards.
Britton, who has been working with district food
services since 1992, is not the only registered dietitian working for
the district. Elizabeth Luebbers, the coordinator of food services,
works with Britton to plan and implement meals. "We are fortunate
because a lot of districts don't even have one dietitian," Britton said.
The state program follows the same guidelines as national
programs. Park City schools offer new weekly breakfast menus, daily
lunch and a fresh fruit and vegetable bar at lunchtime. Each meal must
meet the same nutrition standards.
Park City schools offer two
fresh fruits as part of the lunch entree each day. About five years
ago, food services began offering whole grain and whole wheat bread
products rather than enriched white bread products,
according to Britton. Now all bread, rice and pastas offered in school
lunches are whole wheat or whole grain.
To accommodate individual
student needs, schools offer vegetarian items and each cafeteria is
peanut-free, Britton said. Students can also take advantage of the
all-you-can-eat fresh fruit and vegetable bar. "From what I'm seeing
here, I know they [students] can make good choices without just going to
the salad bar," Liz nan, a registered dietitian at Park City medical
Center, said.
The various menu options give students the ability
to choose what they want to eat rather than having no alternative.
Monthly menus are mailed to families so that parents can involve
themselves in what their children eat. The menu provides the
opportunity for parents to discuss healthy eating options with their
kids to build habits for the future. Nutrition information is included
with the menus so parents can track specific benefits of school lunches,
said Britton.
Parents have an incentive to teach their children
about eating healthy from an early age. "The kids that started when
they were younger don't even bark now about it," Britton said. Britton
and Bynan both feel that parent involvement in school food services is
vital to the future health of students.
Park City Food Services is
a non-profit entity and only receives money from the district if there
is a budget deficit. There has not been a budget deficit in the 18
years Britton has been the director. Meals are paid for by a
combination of government grants and participating students.
Food
Services receives 20 cents for each meal sold the previous year to
purchase government subsidized food. Park City food services received
$80,000. This budget will be used to purchase subsidized cheese,
chicken, beef, canned and frozen vegetables and fresh fruits and
vegetables, Britton said.
District food services receive
government grants to offer qualifying students free and reduced meal
options. Each meal costs roughly $3.20, including food, preparation and
labor. Full price lunch is $1.75 while reduced is 40 cents. Full
price breakfast is $1.10; reduced is 30 cents. Students can add money
to their meal account in the office or online.
With the healthiest
lunches in the state, Park City schools are looking to nationwide
recognition in the future. Food service administrators plan to apply
for the HealthierUS School Challenge, which promotes student health
through a mixture of physical activity and healthy eating. Park City
schools plan to spend the next four years qualifying for each of the
four levels within the challenge. Schools earn government funded grants
for each level on the challenge they achieve.
Park City schools
would be the first school in Utah to achieve recognition as part of the
HealthierUS School Challenge.
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by Douglas Greenwood OF THE RECORD STAFF : The Park Record
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Posted on September 02, 2010 15:47:10 by Michael Lapay
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A
laptop in each Ecker Hill student's hands
Every Students Received a Laptop for Year-Long SchoolUuse
Each student in sixth and seventh grade at
Ecker Hill Middle School received his or her own Apple Macbook Monday.
"It's theirs, 24-7 for the whole school year," Principal Terri Evans
said.
"It's going to change the way we teach, the way we think,"
technology instructional coach Mike Kisow said. High access, or
computer availability for the students, has evolved throughout recent
years.
"Ten years ago, high access was a computer in the
classroom," Kisow said. "Now every student has their own." Two years
ago, fifth grade-students took part in a technology program that paired
two students together to share a computer at school. A laptop for every
student is the next step in that program, he said.
Each computer
package; consisting of the computer, software and bag, costs about
$1,500. To avoid raising the capital tax levy, administrators earmarked
portions of capital budget for three years in preparation for the
laptop rollout. To successfully prepare for the distribution, all
teachers at Ecker Hill and Treasure Mountain middle schools received
laptops last year. The high access technology plan cost about $1.3
million overall, according to Superintendent Ray Timothy.
Before
laptops were distributed, each parent watched a 13-minute introduction
video and signed the user agreement. The video was presented at an
assembly for parents and students during registration. Following the
video, Mike Kisow and Sam Thompson answered any additional questions
from parents to prepare for the Aug 30 rollout.
Students are
expected to bring only their laptops to class every day. Backpacks will
remain in lockers during school and chargers are to be left at home.
They are responsible to take good care of the equipment throughout the
year. At the end of the year, laptops are returned for the summer and
the same computer will be returned to the student each school year for
the next three years.
Classroom content will be digitally
focused this year. Printing assignments will be discouraged, as all
assignments will be distributed and collected through digital drop boxes
accessible on the laptops. Only a few student-access printers are
available in the school.
"We no longer have computer labs
anymore," Kisow said. "We were able to reclaim those instructional
spaces that used to be computer labs, and now there's going to be
classrooms."
While some reclaimed rooms will be filled with
students, others have been converted into tech support stations. Raul
Yubeta and Tricia Jackson will be in charge of diagnosing problems and
troubleshooting at the support stations in the school.
Administrators
will focus on student Internet safety throughout the year by regularly
teaching classes about the topic. Summit County Sheriff's Deputies will
teach a parent-specific Internet safety class in October.
While
at school, the district filter will limit access to social networking
sites such as Facebook and Myspace, external personal email and
video-streaming sites such as Youtube and Hulu. Regardless of how or
where students are accessing the Internet, the district filter will
still apply and limit student web access.
Filters provide some
protection and are good precautions, but they don't block absolutely
everything, Kisow said. "Parental supervision is key to keeping your
child safe online," he said.
Technology instructional coaches will
be organizing regular 20-minute training classes throughout the year to
help students become familiar with their computers, Kisow added.
Each
student whose parent attended the laptop assembly and signed the user
agreement during registration received his or her 13-inch Macbook Aug
30. Administrators have spent the first week of school showing the
introduction video to parents who were unable to view it at
registration.
The Monday bell schedule was adjusted to allow
teachers to distribute the 700 Macbooks among students at the end of
class. Administrators wanted to reduce any distractions created by the
presence of a laptop waiting to be used.
Teachers gathered with
their homeroom classes where students watched a video with similar
instructions to those their parents received. At the conclusion of the
video, teachers passed out the laptops and protective cases. Each
student opened his or her new laptop and logged on to ensure it worked
properly.
Next year, all students at Treasure Mountain
International School will also receive laptops. Administrators plan to
extend high access into the high school within two years, Kisow said.
For More Information on Park City and Deer Valley Contact:
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Posted on September 02, 2010 15:39:36 by Michael Lapay
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GOING FOR GOLD
USSA's NEW HEADQUARTERS ARE THE EPI-CENTER OF EXCELLENCE
"The Center of Excellence...is a great training environment with all the support and resources I need under one roof," says Lindsey Van, the women's ski jumping World Champion and a Park City native. The Center of Excellence the new $22 million headquarters of the US Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) opened its gleaming doors to this past spring thanks to private donations from the USSA's Legacy Campaign endowment fund.
Located on five acres at Quinn's Junction, the center offers 85,000 square feet of high-performance athletic facilities, including strenght-training aras, a gymnasium, ski and snowboard ramps, trampolines, a nutrition center and recover/rehabilitation facilities. Plus, it features educational areas for athletes, coaches and trainers such as multimedia rooms for performance analysis and equipment workshops, as well as a full sport science lab.
USSA's headquarters are home to six primary winter sports teams: alpine skiing, freestyle skiing (including moguls and aerials), cross-country skiing/biathlon, ski jumping/Nordic combined, snowboarding (including half-pipe, parallel giant slalom and snowboard cross) and adaptive sports (including alpine and cross-country skiin). Want to see the state-of-the-art facility firsthand? Public tours can be arranged by calling the USSA at 435.649.9090.
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*Courtesy of the Prudential Utah Real Estate Newsletter - Mid Winter 2010 http://www.pureparkcityrealestate.com/00A9E6
Posted on April 06, 2010 15:30:06 by Michael Lapay
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Park City High School Ranks #1 in Utah
KSL.com, April 20, 2009
SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah High Schools are ranked in football and basketball, but parents have no comparable way to view schools' performance in academics until now. KSL has launched a research project called KSL Schools that shows how schools stand up against each other.
To rank overall high schools, our analyst equally weighted proficiency, how schools prepare students to meet basic state requirements, advanced placement (considered college prep) and progress scores. The state says progress helps equalize the playing field by judging students at a school against their own progress rather than comparing them to students from different socio-economic categories.
Utah's Top 10 High Schools are:
1. Park City High School
2. Davis High School
3. Skyline High School
4. Viewmont High School
5. Lone Peak High School
6. Timpview High School
7. Alta High School
8. Woods Cross High School
9. Timpanogos High School
10. Mountain View High School
Those at the top come from a variety of districts. "What it says is that every school district is probably doing good job with some schools. And I think each one of them has some premiere schools," said Steve Harrison, and independent analyst with Bach Harrison.
We also ranked small high schools -- under 200 students -- using the same criteria.
Utah's Top 5 small high schools are:
1. Panguitch High School
2. Valley High School
3. Morgan High School
4. North Summit High School
5. Wayne High School
The rankings begged several questions. Sunday night we revealed our research identified small schools like Altamont High School and Piute High School at the top of the list for preparing all students to meet state requirements. So why didn't they make our Top Schools list?
These small school schools don't or can't offer Advanced Placement classes. So, for many students, there is a clear advantage to attending a big high school. "I think there is if you are college-bound, it certainly is; because they're able to then offer more of those advanced placement classes," Harrison said. We recognize not all success stories revolve around test scores or rankings, so we've asked every principal to send us their school stories. http://www.pureparkcityrealestate.com/00A7CE
Posted on February 25, 2010 14:01:48 by Michael Lapay
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