The latest report of Utah graduation rates shows a continuing upward trend of Granite School District graduation percentage points. Over the past several years, Granite’s graduation rate has steadily increased from 63 percent in 2009 to 75 percent in 2017. Economically disadvantaged students, English language learners, and students with ...
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Photo Gallery: Sixth-graders get a taste of high school at network pep rally
At first glance, a high school can be overwhelming to an elementary-age student. The building is larger, the students are taller, and the opportunities are greater. But before they know it, these young students will enter the doors of their high school eager to take on the challenge to graduate. At Taylorsville High School, sixth-graders from ...
Junior high students invited to share cultures and personal stories with USU graduate students
As the Salt Lake Valley continues to transform into a melting pot of various ancestries and cultures, many students are finding they have more in common with each other than they may have previously realized. In Granite School District there are hundreds of students and families from around the globe who now call Utah home. Although coming to a ...
Refugee student wins full-ride scholarship, graduates early
Yonas Desta, like many refugee students who have left their native homes to come to America, had to break through barriers on his path to academic success. Yet this young man from Ethiopia kept up his ear-to-ear smile through all the language obstacles, cultural learning, and academic rigors for the past two years as he blazed a path to an early ...