Mountain Heights Academy

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Mountain Heights Academy
Location
Mountain Heights Academy
9067 S 1300 W Suite 204, West Jordan, Utah

United States
Coordinates 40°35′33″N111°55′14″W / 40.592427°N 111.92059°W / 40.592427; -111.92059
Information
TypePublic charter
Established2009
AuthorizerUtah State Charter School Board
DirectorDeLaina Tonks
Teaching staff70.99 (FTE) [1]
Grades7-12
Enrollment882 (2023–2024) [1]
Student to teacher ratio12.42 [1]
Website www.mountainheightsacademy.org
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Mountain Heights Academy is a non-profit online charter high school [3] in the United States. It opened in 2010 as Open High School of Utah and was renamed Mountain Heights Academy in 2013.

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History

Open High School of Utah was founded by David A. Wiley in 2009. [4] [5] It received its charter in 2007 and opened in 2010. [4] In January 2013, the school was renamed Mountain Heights Academy. [6]

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. [7]

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. [8]

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. [9]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Mountain Heights Academy". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved April 27, 2025.
  2. ↑ "Mountain Heights Academy". Qualified Utah Charters. Retrieved April 26, 2021.
  3. ↑ "Virtual Schools in the U.S. 2014: Politics, Performance, Policy, and Research Evidence". National Education Policy Center. March 4, 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 ""Opening" a New Kind of School: The Story of the Open High School of Utah". International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning. Retrieved July 19, 2014.
  5. ↑ "The pandemic threw a spotlight on the virtues of virtual school". Deseret News. December 20, 2023. Retrieved May 7, 2024.
  6. ↑ "About Us". Mountain Heights Academy. Archived from the original on July 4, 2014. Retrieved July 19, 2014.
  7. ↑ "Open Source Goes to High School". OpenSource.com. Retrieved July 19, 2014.
  8. ↑ "The Open High School of Utah Releases Open Educational Curriculum under CC-BY". Creative Commons. Retrieved July 19, 2014.
  9. ↑ Pflaum, Chris Jones and Nadia (January 17, 2019). "Beyond the Books: Charter schools spend millions on advertising" . Retrieved May 15, 2024.
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