Mountain Heights Academy Explained

Mountain Heights Academy
Established:2009
Type:Public charter
Authorizer:Utah State Charter School Board
Grades:7-12
Director:DeLaina Tonks
Teaching Staff:100
Enrollment:1363
Location:9067 S 1300 W Suite 204, West Jordan, Utah
Country:United States
Coordinates:40.5924°N -111.9206°W
Footnotes:[1]

Mountain Heights Academy is a non-profit online charter high school[2] in the United States. It opened in 2010 and was renamed Mountain Heights Academy in 2013.

History

Open High School of Utah was founded by David A. Wiley in 2009.[3] It received its charter in 2007 and opened in 2010 as Open High School of Utah.[4] In January 2013, the school was renamed Mountain Heights Academy.[5]

Teaching

Open High School of Utah existed as a virtual high school, with students attending online. Teachers curated Open Educational Resources aligned to the content to Utah state standards.[6]

Creating Open Educational Resources was a fundamental aspect of the school's charter.[4] On 7 September 2010, Open High School of Utah released ten semesters of high school curriculum under a CC-BY license.[7]

Performance

In 2016, Mountain Heights Academy received an "F" from the state. In 2019, it ranked at 411th place out of 950 Utah schools.It spent $819,000 on marketing.[8]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mountain Heights Academy. Qualified Utah Charters. 26 April 2021.
  2. Web site: Virtual Schools in the U.S. 2014: Politics, Performance, Policy, and Research Evidence. 2014-03-04. National Education Policy Center.
  3. Web site: 2023-12-20 . The pandemic threw a spotlight on the virtues of virtual school . 2024-05-07 . Deseret News . en.
  4. Web site: "Opening" a New Kind of School: The Story of the Open High School of Utah . International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning . 2014-07-19.
  5. Web site: About Us . Mountain Heights Academy . 2014-07-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140704041444/http://www.mountainheightsacademy.org/aboutus/ . 2014-07-04 . dead .
  6. Web site: Open Source Goes to High School . OpenSource.com . 2014-07-19.
  7. Web site: The Open High School of Utah Releases Open Educational Curriculum under CC-BY . Creative Commons . 2014-07-19.
  8. News: Pflaum . Chris Jones and Nadia . 2019-01-17 . Beyond the Books: Charter schools spend millions on advertising . 2024-05-15 . en.

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