Viewmont High School

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 2011, is Dan Linford. 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. Viewmont students average 23.44 on the ACT. In addition, Viewmont graduates 97% of its seniors with over 40% earning college credit through Advanced Placement and Concurrent Enrollment classes. In 2010-11, the top 20% of graduates generated approximately $4 million in scholarship offers. Viewmont also offers a full range of artistic, athletic, and career and technical programs.

School information

Sports

Viewmont High School offers many sports, such as Football, Basketball, Baseball, Wrestling, Volleyball, Cross Country, Track and Field, Golf, Tennis, Swimming and American Football. Viewmont has won the state title in wrestling 7 out of the last 10 years including 2010.

Viewmont High shares a strong and emotional rivalry with Davis High School. For 2011-12 Viewmont has moved to Region 2, which includes Taylorsville, Hunter, Kearns, Granger, and West High Schools.^[1]

Clubs

Viewmont has a wide variety of clubs, including:

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, Little Caesars 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.^[2] 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.^[3]

Guadalupe

Every year Viewmont holds a fundraiser to support kids in Salt Lake City that attend Guadalupe Elementary School. The monetary amount differs from year to year but has consistently reached upwards of $25,000 in the past 4–5 years. The money is used to buy Christmas presents that the children would otherwise not obtain. Other local charities are also given part of the students' fundraising efforts. Students who wish to attend the trip to Guadalupe must participate in fund-raising activities and help shop for the children's wish-lists.

VHS Marching Band

The VHS Marching Band competes in local Marching Band competitions in the 3A class. They also march in a number of local parades. They took second in 3A in 2013 at the state championship in Red Rocks, St. George. In several other competitions that year, they placed first.

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".^[4] 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. 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 up incoming students with a group of upperclassmen to help connect and educate and facilitate inclusion for all new students.

References

External links

• Viewmont High School homepage
• Davis School District homepage
• Viewmont historical game-by-game football results since 1980
• VHS Bands homepage