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About Wasatch County School District

Wasatch County School District (WCSD) was formally established in 1898 to serve the educational needs of families across the county’s 1,117 square miles. From its earliest days, the district has been committed to providing quality education for the growing communities of Heber, Midway, Charleston, Wallsburg, Daniel, Independence, Hideout, and Interlaken.

One of the district’s first permanent facilities, the Wasatch Education Center, was built in 1905 and remains the oldest educational building still in use today. Over time, WCSD has expanded to include five elementary schools, two middle schools, and one high school, serving more than 7,500 students. In addition, the district operates the Center for Advanced Professional Studies (CAPS), which partners students with local industry mentors to build real-world skills.

Looking to the future, WCSD is preparing to open its second comprehensive high school—Deer Creek High School—on Midway Lane in August 2026. The new school will serve grades 9–12 and provide state-of-the-art academic, arts, and athletic facilities to meet the needs of Wasatch County’s rapidly growing student population.

Deer Creek High School will sit alongside the new Mountainland Technical College (MTECH) Heber Valley Campus, also under construction and scheduled to open in mid-2026. This modern facility will feature locally sourced materials and provide hands-on, high-demand training in healthcare, skilled trades (automotive, welding, diesel), culinary arts, cosmetology, and technology—creating a powerful partnership between WCSD and MTECH to support both college and career readiness for students in the Heber Valley.

Throughout its history, WCSD has been recognized as one of Utah’s top-performing school districts, consistently maintaining graduation rates above state and national averages. Today, as one of the fastest-growing counties in Utah, Wasatch County School District remains committed to adapting and expanding to ensure that every student has access to inspiring, safe, and innovative learning environments.

Mission, Vision Commitments & Goals

Mission

Ensuring ALL students obtain all the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that will enable them to reach their personal goals and be a productive contributing member of our society.

Vision

The key to improved student learning is increased capacity in adults. We will become a high-functioning professional learning community, in an effort to increase the capacity of ALL adults in our system.

Commitments

  • Educators work in collaborative teams and take collective responsibility for student learning rather than work in isolation.
  • Collaborative teams implement a guaranteed and viable curriculum.
  • Collaborative teams monitor student learning through an ongoing assessment process that includes frequent team-developed common formative assessments.
  • Educators use the results of common assessments to improve individual practice, to build the team’s capacity to achieve its goals, and intervene and extend on behalf of students.
  • The school provides a systemic process for intervention and extension.
  • Expand the learning community. Just like teachers should not work in isolation, neither should teams, schools, or districts.

Goals

  1. Learn from the highest achieving schools and districts in the state until we become the highest achieving district in the state.
  2. Be recognized as a model PLC district and have each school be recognized as a model PLC school.
  3. Have each student connected to their school.
  4. Have each secondary student complete post-secondary launch prep courses by the time they are done with high school.