Sky View High School
Sky View High School
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| Smithfield, Utah United States |
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| Coordinates | 41°49′30″N 111°49′30″W / 41.825°N 111.825°WCoordinates: 41°49′30″N 111°49′30″W / 41.825°N 111.825°W |
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| Type | High School |
| Established | 1963 |
| Principal | David J. Swenson |
| Vice principal | Joel L. Allred |
| Vice principal | Tim G. Smith |
| Number of students | 1450 |
| Song | Where the Mountain Peaks Meet the Starry Sky (Our Own Sky View) |
| Mascot | Bobcat |
| Nickname | Cats |
| Newspaper | 'Catonian' |
| Yearbook | 'Aurora' |
| Website | http://www.ccsdut.org/SkyViewHigh.cfm |
Sky View High School (SVHS), in Smithfield, Utah, is the northernmost public high school in the state of Utah. Part of the Cache County School District, it serves approximately 1,500 students in the 10th through 12th grades in the northern part of Utah's Cache County, from the Logan city limits on the south to the Utah-Idaho border on the north.
Sky View is very closely related to North Cache 8-9 Center in the same school district, which has the same mascot. North Cache is also the only "feeder" school (A school which graduates students to a specific other school) to Sky View ("grinder" school), while North Cache has two feeder schools (White Pine and Cedar Ridge), since Sky View is big enough to accommodate all the students. Sky View also incorporates classes from Bridgerland Applied Technology College (BATC). The classes take up 2 hours and count as 1 full class credit instead of the normal .5 credit. Buses are provided for transportation to and from BATC.
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[edit] History
Until 1963, the Cache County School district maintained two high schools: North Cache (Richmond) and South Cache (Hyrum). Beginning with the 1963-64 school year, both studentbodies were combined at the newly built Sky View in Smithfield. The two former high schools were converted to junior highs, covering grades 7 to 9.
For twenty years, from 1963 to 1983, Sky View High School served both the northern and southern parts of Utah's Cache County. Residents of Logan continued to attend Logan High School, which belonged to the Logan City School District. This meant that students from the southern end of the valley would board a bus, travel as far as ten or fifteen miles to Logan, pass within one block of Logan High School and continue another eight miles to Sky View. After the completion and opening of Mountain Crest High School in Hyrum in 1983, Mountain Crest began accepting the southern part of Cache County while Sky View kept the northern half.
Somewhat unexpectedly for a remote rural school, Sky View enjoys a strong reputation in the arts, particularly music and drama.
Sky View also has a long tradition of excellence in forensics. Its debate team has about 85 members, nearly triple the state average. Sky View has collected a lopsided share of state and regional debate championships, taking the Region title (as of 2010) ten years in a row, and winning the State title for nine consecutive years as of March 2010.
Sky View's marching band has competed nationally since the school's inception. The Sky View marching band reached the Bands of America Regional Championships in 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2011. In fact, in 2010, they placed as the 5th best marching band in the western United States at the Bands of America Competition with their Japanese show KOTO, and in 2011 placed 7th in the same competition with their show Rock Me Blue.
[edit] Rivalries
Sky View High School shares Cache Valley with Mountain Crest High School and Logan High School. In the nearby Bear River Valley are Bear River High School (in Tremonton and Garland, Utah; the campus straddles the town border) and Box Elder High School (Brigham City). Although these schools do not share the same division, competition and tensions run high in invitational games, meets, and matches. There are also limited rivalries encompassing certain events in which Sky View participates, such as the marching band's gentlemen's rivalry against American Fork High School or the debate team's feud with Davis and West High Schools. The school-wide rivals, however, are Mountain Crest and Logan High Schools.
[edit] Notable alumni
- Kent Baer (1969), football defensive coordinator, University of Washington 2005-, Notre Dame (2002-2004), Stanford (1995-2001)
- Michael Ballam (1969), opera performer, founder and director of the Utah Festival Opera Company (1992-present)
- Craig Jessop (1968), director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir 1999-2008 and current Dean of the Caine School of the Arts at Utah State University.
