Some community members are calling for the Salt Lake City School District to consider building a new high school on the west side of the city — where students deal with the distance between neighborhoods like Glendale and east side high schools.
That was the time that Itzel Nava’s dad had to be at work every weekday. It’s also the time that he made sure Nava and her younger siblings were up and getting ready for school.
The calls come as Salt Lake City school board members consider the futures of West High, which is just west of downtown on 300 West, and Highland High, the district’s easternmost high school, at 2166 S. 1700 East. Board chairman Nate Salazar said he’s felt cautious about whether there is taxpayer support for such sums.
While the district’s students can individually request to attend a different high school, the boundaries for East High extend west into Glendale. “So it was this realization that I don’t look like the students that I go to school with,” she said, “but [the school] didn’t create a safe space for me to try and understand who I am.”
“I am white, but the minute I was like, ‘I’m representing Glendale,’ and they were like ‘Oh,’” Langi said. “It’s just one of those things.” “I didn’t really fully understand what it was like to go to a [high] school in your community because I never had anything to compare it to,” Nava said. “It wasn’t until I finally graduated from East High School when I realized a lot of students who actually have schools in their community do not face all these different challenges.”
Current five-year enrollment projections for each existing school are 1,919 students for East, 1,743 for Highland and 2,510 for West. Adding a fourth high school would reduce the average number of students for each school to around 1,543 — with a slow decline to below 1,500 within five years.
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