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1850 South 2500 East Principal: Sue Heath |
Our Vision at Beacon Heights: “We will provide high levels of student learning and performance in a safe, supportive, progressive, well-equipped environment in which individual needs are valued.”
Our Mission at Beacon Heights: “To prepare students to pursue lives of continuous learning and service in our diverse, global society.”
Facts About Beacon Heights
- Our children are a diverse yet stable population that has formed into a caring community. While the majority of students are from within Beacon’s boundaries, a number of SLC District students attend Beacon Heights by choice. We have a strong PTA and SCC and encourage parental participation in all aspects of the school.
- Beacon Heights’ faculty and parents have developed a strong integrated curriculum, using the Utah State Office of Education Core Curriculum as a base.
- We are committed to creating a balanced literacy program, ensuring a strong math foundation and supporting the emotional growth of each child.
Beacon Heights Highlights
- Beacon Heights’ teaching climate promotes faculty collaboration and growth because of a shared vision. We have strong partnerships with Westminster College and the University of Utah departments of dance, drama and visual arts.
- We are a pilot school in the Artworks for Kids program which believes that a fine arts education can support core learning through multifaceted experience which incorporate drama, dance, visual arts and theater.
- 20 different languages are spoken among the student body.
This page was last modified
August 5, 2009