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Mountainville Academy is a public charter school in Alpine, Utah, with students from Kindergarten to Ninth grade. It was founded in 2006 by local parents who wanted to provide greater choice in education for their children.
The school's beginnings were controversial. In 2006, as Alpine City was reviewing its proposed location, the planning commissioners voted unanimously not to approve the proposed site, and residents presented petitions also opposing the location. Even though the city did not have authority to prevent the building of the school, the founders, in an effort to foster better relations with the city and residents, found another site for the school.
This area of rural Utah in which the school is located was originally called "Mountainville". When the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Brigham Young, visited the area, he is said to have remarked that it reminded him of the Swiss Alps, so in 1850 when the area became a city, the city fathers named it "Alpine". The school is titled in honor of the area's original name, and its building was designed to be reminiscent of the area's first school house, a red brick building built in 1899 and torn down in 1968.
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Categories:- Charter schools in Utah
- Schools in Utah County, Utah
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