Viewmont High School

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Viewmont High School
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Address
Viewmont High School
120 West 1000 North

Bountiful
,
Utah
84010
Coordinates 40°54′N111°53′W / 40.900°N 111.883°W / 40.900; -111.883
Information
Type Public
MottoA Tradition of Excellence
School districtDavis School District
PrincipalTravis Lund
Faculty61.34 (FTE) [1]
Grades10–12
Enrollment1,518 (2022–23) [1]
Student to teacher ratio24.75 [1]
Color(s)Cardinal and gold    [2]
Mascot Viking [2]
Website davis.k12.ut.us

Viewmont High School is a public high school located in Bountiful, Utah. The school is a member of the Davis School District. The principal, as of 2024, is Travis Lund.

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In 2011, VHS was identified by Newsweek magazine and the Washington Post as being in the top 5% of all public high schools in the United States.[ citation needed ] Viewmont students average 23.44 on the ACT.[ citation needed ] In addition, Viewmont graduates 96% of its seniors, with over 40% earning college credit through Advanced Placement and Concurrent Enrollment classes. In 2019 5,300 CE Credits were earned by the junior and senior classes. [ citation needed ] In 2020, the senior class generated approximately $10.7 million in scholarship offers.[ citation needed ] Viewmont also offers a full range of artistic, athletic, and career and technical programs. Over the years there have been 41 state titles and 219 regional titles.

School information

Sports

Viewmont High School offers many sports, such as lacrosse, soccer, basketball, baseball, wrestling, volleyball, cross country, track and field, golf, tennis, swimming and American football.

The Viewmont Drill Team has won the state title in 2022 and 2023. [3] [4] [5] [6]

The Viewmont Softball team earned the state title in 2003. [7]

Viewmont has won the state title in wrestling in seven out of the last ten years.

The Viewmont men's tennis team has won three state titles in recent years.

The Viewmont men's and women's swimming teams have won two state titles each in recent years. Swimmer Drew Bonner set the state record on February 12, 2016, in 500-yard Freestyle at 4:32.53. [8]

Viewmont is a 5A school, along with nearby schools such as Bountiful and Woods Cross. [9]

Clubs

Viewmont has a wide variety of clubs, including:

  • Art
  • Anime
  • Berserkers
  • Best Buddies
  • Book Club
  • Chess
  • Chill
  • Chi & Ashman
  • Color Guard
  • Debate
  • DECA
  • Drama
  • FBLA
  • FCCLA
  • Gideon
  • Hockey
  • HOSA
  • Improv
  • Interact
  • International
  • Investment
  • Junior Committee
  • Junior State of America
  • Latin
  • Mountain Bike
  • National Honors Society
  • Newspaper
  • Operation Smile
  • Ping Pong
  • Pit Crew
  • Psychology
  • PTSA
  • SkillsUSA
  • Sophomore Committee
  • Stage Guild
  • Swing
  • The View (Impact Team)
  • TSA
  • Writers Ink

The Viewmont Hockey team has a rich history of excellence. They have taken State in 1977, 1978, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019. [10] [11]

Bookstore

The Viewmont Bookstore is a student run store open every day at lunch. They sell a variety of food items, such as Frazil frozen drinks, Tacotime Burritos, Chick-fil-A, Dominos Pizza, and Joy Luck. They also sell a variety of Viewmont apparel.

Danegeld

The Danegeld, the Viewmont school newspaper, is written and published by students several times a year. [12] The newspaper has been in print since 1964, and in 1968 its name was changed from The Big V to the Danegeld. The Danegeld staff has also created an online blog that allows students to openly discuss articles. [13]

Vikings Give

For years, Viewmont held a fundraiser to support students in Salt Lake City who attend Guadalupe Elementary School. The monetary amount differed from year to year, but consistently reached upwards of $25,000 in its final years 4–5 years.[ citation needed ] The money was used to buy Christmas presents that the children would otherwise not receive. Other local charities were also given part of the students' fundraising efforts. Students who wished to attend the trip to Guadalupe must participate in fundraising activities and help shop for the children's wish lists. In 2016, the Guadalupe was replaced with a new program called Viking Gives. In the most recent years of establishing the new program of “Vikings Give”, Viewmont has been able to earn upwards of $80,000.

VHS Marching Band

The VHS Marching Band competes in local marching band competitions in the 4A class. They also march in a number of local parades. They took third in 2A in 2015 at the state championship in Red Rocks, St. George. In several other competitions that year, they placed third.

Pathways, advisory and SRC

For the 2007–2008 school year, each student at Viewmont was placed into one of five pathways: Arts, Business, Humanities, Science, or Technology. The pathways "allow students to develop their interests and specialize as much as they would like". [14] Students go to an advisory class twice a month based on their grade and pathway. SRC (Study Hall–Remediation–Collaboration) is a mandatory study hall for students that failed one or more classes the previous term. SRC is also mandatory for all sophomores during the first term of each school year, or for any age student who desires to receive help in any particular subject. It is held during the first part of lunch every school day except Fridays. In addition, Viewmont has "Link Crew", a new sophomore transition program, which matches incoming students with a group of upperclassmen to help connect and educate and facilitate inclusion for all new students.

Notable historical incidents

On the night of November 8, 1974, Viewmont High School was the site of serial killer Ted Bundy's abduction of 17-year-old Viewmont High School student Debra Kent. That night, Viewmont High School Drama club was presenting the play The Redhead. During the play, Bundy was seen repeatedly inside Viewmont High School auditorium, asking students as well as the Viewmont dance teacher to go outside with him. At one point Bundy was sitting watching the play behind the Kent family, and at another point pretending to be a theater usher, both before and after Kent was abducted in the school parking lot and presumably locked in Bundy's car parked there. [15] Bundy later confessed that he did not finally kill Kent at Viewmont High School, but abducted her to his apartment where he later killed her. [16] Another Viewmont High School student, 15-year-old Susan Curtis, who also attended the school play that night, was abducted and killed by Bundy on June 27, 1975. [17]

History

Viewmont High School was founded in 1964.

Notable alumni

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  2. 1 2 "Viewmont High School". Utah High School Activities Association. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
  3. ↑ "High school drill team: Viewmont edges Spanish Fork to clinch repeat 5A state championship". 4 February 2023.
  4. ↑ "High school drill team: Viewmont captures 5A state championship, its first in school history". 6 February 2022.
  5. ↑ "5A Drill State Championship" (PDF). www.uhsaa.org.
  6. ↑ "5A Drill State Championships" (PDF). www.uhsaa.org.
  7. ↑ "Viewmont wins first&#151;ever softball title". 23 May 2003.
  8. ↑ "Utah High School Activities Association Sports Records Book" (PDF).
  9. ↑ "UHSAA Regions & Classifications".
  10. ↑ "High school hockey: Viewmont wins state title in triple overtime over Park City". March 2014.
  11. ↑ "Awards - Utah High School Hockey".
  12. ↑ "The Danegeld". Archived from the original on April 8, 2009.
  13. ↑ Danegeld blog [ permanent dead link ]
  14. ↑ "Pathways". Archived from the original on March 17, 2008.
  15. ↑ The Only Living Witness, Stephen G. Michaud, Hugh Aynesworth (1999), page 95–97, 101
  16. ↑ Who Was The Victim That Ted Bundy Admitted Taking Back To His Home? BY JILL SEDERSTROM, AUGUST 19, 2019,
  17. ↑ Utah families still feel effects of tragedy By Associated Press Aug 20, 2000
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