Canyons Tops Niche.com Rankings for Second Consecutive Year
Curious how Canyons School District stacks up against the competition? For the second year running, Canyons ranks No. 1 for Best School Districts in Salt Lake County and the surrounding metropolitan area. That’s according to the 2024 rankings by Niche.com, which compares school districts based on test scores, the quality of colleges students attend, extracurricular activities, […]
Safety Drill of the Month: Bomb Threats and School Evacuations
Bomb threats are something Alta High Principal Ken Rowley is all too familiar with. On the afternoon of Jan. 4, 2023, a former student approached a teacher at Alta, handed her a backpack, and left with little explanation. Unsure of the contents of the backpack, the teacher took it to the school’s Student Resource Officer […]
Utah College Application Week: Ensuring Canyons Students Are College and Career Ready
For 15 years, Canyons has embraced an overarching mission of ensuring that every student is college- and career-ready at the time of high school graduation. But the District doesn’t stop there in preparing students for life after their senior years. All high schools in Canyons — Alta, Brighton, Corner Canyon, Hillcrest, Jordan, and Diamond Ridge […]
Jordan High to Launch Navy Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps
Anchors aweigh! Jordan High School is launching Canyons District’s first Naval Cadet Program, which could begin training future sailors as soon as the fall of 2024. The U.S. Navy-authorized National Defense Cadet Corps (NNDCC) was approved Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023 by the Canyons Board of Education and will begin enrolling students this winter for the […]
Safety Drill of the Month: Here’s What Happens During a ‘Secure’ Protocol in CSD Schools
On a Wednesday morning in January 2017, Unified Police asked Midvale Elementary to activate what’s now known as a “secure” protocol while they responded to reports of a bank robbery near the school. All students were already safe inside their classrooms, busy learning as usual and largely oblivious to the safety protocol, which lasted all […]
Apply Online for CSD’s Popular Dual-Language Immersion Programs
Did you know that Canyons District has some of the most extensive language immersion offerings in Utah? Twenty-one elementary and secondary schools offer dual immersion programs in Spanish, French, or Chinese — and it’s nearly time to apply to enroll for the 2024-2025 school year. Applications for these popular programs are accepted online from Monday, […]