Sky View High School

Infobox School
name = Sky View High School


imagesize = 300 X 209
caption = Home of the Cats
motto =
song = Where The Mountain Peaks Meet the Starry Sky (Our Own Sky View)
established = 1963
type = High School
Athletics = Football, Baseball, Basketball, Lacrosse, Tennis, Softball, Wrestling, Volleyball, Golf, Cross Country, Swimming, Track & Field, Marching Band
affiliation =
District = Cache County School District
Grades = 10-12
principal = Dee Ashcroft
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dean =
faculty =
staff =
students = Approx. 1452
enrollment =
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conference =
Colors = Blue and White with Gold
mascot = Bobcat
campus size =
location = Smithfield, Utah
country = USA
information =
website = http://www.cache.k12.ut.us/web/svhs/home/index.jsp

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 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.

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 serving the southern part of Cache County while Sky View kept the northern half.

In 1974, large whitewashed letters "SV" were placed on a foothill outside Hyde Park, overlooking the football field.

ports

For the first time in two decades the Sky View High School Marching band went to Bands of America Regionals and finished tenth in the western United States. The year was 2007, the show was "James Bond Casino Royal"

For the first time in the schools history the Girls basketball team took state. They accomplished this in the 2007-2008 basketball season

Arts and Debate

Perhaps unusual for a largely rural school, Sky View High has a long-standing record of excellence in music, drama and debate, which attract students in disproportionate numbers.

The high school Symphonic band or "Sky View Wind Ensemble" wich is the highest Performing Arts group in its band program had attained many consecutive superior ratings in many of its competitive events.

The top choral group known as Encore has done similarly. Its debate team, for example, has about 85 members, nearly triple the average; it has won a lopsided share of state championships and region championships, taking the Region title (as of 2008) eight years in a row, and winning the State title six years in a row.

Administration

*Principal: Dee Ashcroft
*Vice Principals: Clair Larkin and Tim Smith

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)

*David Michael Cottle (1974), American composer

*Craig Jessop (1968), director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir 1999-2008

*Jacalyn "Jackie" Smith Leavitt (1968), former Utah First Lady (1992-2003) and wife of Health and Human Services Secretary (2003-present) Michael Leavitt

*Diann Thornley (1975), science fiction/fantasy writer (Ganwold's Child, Echoes of Issel)

tatistics

* Enrollment: Approx. 1492
* Grade levels: 10–12
* Mascot: The Bobcat
* Newspaper Name: "Catonian"
* Yearbook Name: "Polaris"
* Nickname:
* School colors: Sky blue, gold, white
* School Song:'Our Own Sky View"
* School district: Cache County School District
* Year opened: 1963
* Year-round schedule: Trimesters

External links

* [http://www.cache.k12.ut.us/web/svhs/home/index.jsp School Home Page]
* [http://www.cache.k12.ut.us/ School District Home Page]