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Welcome to Canyon Rim Academy!
Academic excellence is within reach at Canyon Rim Academy, a new public K-6 charter school located below Parley’s Canyon. Canyon Rim Academy is nestled in the quiet Canyon Rim community of Salt Lake County, adjacent to a twelve-acre county park and within easy access to from I-80 and I-215. Canyon Rim Academy occupies the former Canyon Rim Elementary property located at 3005 South 2900 East, which it leases from Granite School District.
Immediately after Granite determined to close Canyon Rim Elementary, a group of parents living nearby began the arduous process of preparing a charter application, competing with over 15 other applicants for one of the three remaining charters available from the State Board of Education. Erik Olson, President of Canyon Rim Academy’s Board of Trustees, attributes the school’s success to the top-notch education plan in its charter application, together with the commitment of parents to make the school a reality: “With an education plan centered on E.D. Hirsch’s Core Knowledge Sequence, complemented by Saxon Math, a service learning emphasis, strong arts programs, and foreign language instruction, we expect to be the premier Utah elementary school.”
In addition to Core Knowledge, Canyon Rim Academy has a service-learning emphasis, a program based on the concept of applied learning. Through service with various community partnerships, students are given the opportunity to apply learned concepts directly.
Canyon Rim Academy has a full-time Spanish teacher who will teach Spanish two to three hours per week in grades four through six.
Canyon Rim Academy recognizes that exposure to arts, in all forms, enhances children’s understanding of the world around them and provides another link in learning and self-expression. Complementing the arts components of the Core Knowledge Sequence, each class will have an art parent to assist the classroom teacher with visual arts instruction. Canyon Rim Academy will continue to build partnerships with local arts organizations such as Repertory Dance Theatre, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, and the Utah Opera Company to provide artist-in-residence programs. A music instructor will also provide instrumental music programs for upper grades.
As a charter school with reduced class sizes, enrollment in the school is limited, but some student openings remain in most grades. To enroll your child at Canyon Rim Academy, Enroll Now.
Please direct any questions to info@canyonrimacademy.org.
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