| Merit Preparatory Academy | |
| Zipcode: | 84663 |
| Coordinates: | 40.1675°N -111.6358°W |
| Established: | 2008 |
| Director: | Mike Condie [1] |
| Authorizer: | Utah State Charter School Board |
| Grades: | 7–12 |
| Website: | www.meritprepacademy.org |
| Enrollment: | 431 |
| Colors: | Navy, maroon, silver |
| Mascot: | Knight |
| Address: | 1440 West Center Street |
| Footnotes: | [2] |
Merit Preparatory Academy (MPA) is a public chartered high school serving grades 7–12 in Springville, Utah, United States, which opened in 2008.
The school building is a 63000square feet ADA-compliant facility on approximately 12acres. It has classrooms, foreign language labs, gymatorium (gym/auditorium), art classroom, dance studio, music rooms, a kitchen, cafeteria, and both indoor and outdoor sports facilities.
Merit Preparatory Academy is a tuition-free, public charter school, that focuses on quality education and character development through principled leadership, project-based learning, and active service. The curriculum follows the state core content with some additions.
Instructional Focus Tracks (IFTs), starting in the 10th grade, provide specialist teaching. Students can take 6.5 credits, of the total 27 credits they need to graduate, as an intensive focused study in the following areas:
Students taking courses in the Business IFT, for example, will start and run their own businesses either online or at the student store, under the direction of Merit's business IFT faculty and volunteer professionals from the community. A student in the Computers & Technology IFT might build a service robot in the Robotics course, or work on a website development team that produces a site for a real company. A student in the Fine Arts IFT might create a composition or short play staged and performed in the theater.
(https://www.meritprepacademy.org/directory) [3]