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Here are the new school grades for Wasatch Front high schools. If a school has one grade, the grade was unchanged from last year.
To find full reports for all schools, visit the State School Grades page at the state Office of Education site. To read our main story, click here.
For the new grades released Monday, Utah schools are being graded on a modified curve — based on an agreement reached by legislative leaders and state education managers.
The curve means roughly the same number of schools that got A grades last year received As this year. However, grades did change at some Wasatch Front high schools — West High School in Salt Lake City got a controversial F last year, for example, and a C under the new grades. Jordan District's high schools all moved up one grade.
The grades are based in part on year-end testing. But this spring, Utah schools switched to a new, more rigorous computer adaptive SAGE test, which drove down test scores. Without the curve, it could have appeared that school performance dropped dramatically in one year, Associate State Superintendent Judy Park has explained.
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Alpine School District
American Fork High Grade: B
Lehi High Grade: D, was B
Lone Peak High Grade: B
Mountain View High Grade: D, was B
Orem High Grade: B
Pleasant Grove High Grade: B
Timpanogos High Grade: B
Summit High Grade: F
Westlake High Grade: C, was D
Canyons School District
Alta High Grade: B, was C
Brighton High Grade: B, was C
Hillcrest High Grade: B, was C
Jordan High Grade: C
Davis School District
Bountiful High Grade: B
Clearfield High Grade: B
Davis High Grade:
Layton High Grade: B
Northridge High Grade: B
Viewmont High Grade: A, was F
Woods Cross High Grade: B
Syracuse High Grade: B
Granite School District
Cottonwood High Grade: D
Cyprus High Grade: F, was D
Granger High Grade: F, was D
Hunter High Grade: F, was D
Kearns High Grade: D, was F
Olympus High Grade: B, was C
Skyline High Grade: B
Taylorsville High Grade: D
Jordan School District
Copper Hills High Grade: B, was C
Bingham High Grade: B, was C
Riverton High Grade: B, was C
West Jordan High Grade: C, was D
Herriman High Grade: B, was C
Murray School District
Murray High Grade: B
Ogden School District
Ben Lomand High Grade: D, was F
Ogden High Grade: D, was C
Salt Lake City School District
East High School Grade: C, was D
Highland High School Grade: C, was D
West High School Grade: Grade: C, was F
How Utah's charter high schools fared
(This list does not include charter schools that did not receive grades last year.)
Academy for Math, Engineering and Science (AMES) B, was A
Northern Utah Academy for Math, Engineering and Science (NUAMES) A
InTech Collegiate High School A
Tuacahn High School for the Performing Arts C, was B
Walden School of Liberal Arts B
Success Academy A, was B
Beehive Science and Technology Academy C, was B
Legacy Preparatory Academy B
Karl G. Maeser Preparatory Academy B
Pinnacle Canyon Academy F, was C
City Academy C
Itineris Early College High B, was C
American Leadership Academy C
Salt Lake School for the Performing Arts C
Merit College Preparatory Academy C
Rockwell Charter High School D, was C
Mountain Heights Academy C
DaVinci Academy C, was D
East Hollywood High D
Utah Virtual Academy F