We’d like to introduce you to the Deer Creek High School Community Council, share some news with you about academic progress at DCHS, and invite your input and involvement in the Council. 

Utah law established Community Councils in each public school to allocate money to improve educational outcomes, using money generated from public lands through the Utah School LAND Trust: http://www.schoollandtrust.org/ 

The Council is composed of six parent representatives and four DCHS representatives; the current member roster can be found below. The Council meets quarterly with Principal Justin Kelly, Vice Principal Amanda Porter and other administrators and teachers to discuss the accomplishments and challenges of our DCHS students, and explore opportunities to help each student to excel.

One responsibility of the Community Council is to review academic progress and challenges. 

Each year the Community Council prepares a LAND Trust Plan for the following school year, allocating the available funds to Professional Learning and other programs intended to reach the academic goals developed by DCHS and the Council. State law requires that expenditures must “have a direct impact on the instruction of students in the particular school’s areas of most critical academic need,” and cannot be spent (a) to cover the fixed costs of doing business; (b) for construction, maintenance, facilities, overhead, security, or athletics; or (c) to pay for non-academic in-school, co-curricular, or extracurricular activities.http://www.schoollandtrust.org/program/

Approximately $280,000 was made available to DCHS for use during the 2026-2027 school year. This year’s plan will be posted at the DCHS website once it has been formulated and approved. We invite you to review the Plan and comment here, or provide feedback or suggestions to our Community Council Chair (TBD), Principal Justin Kelly or Vice Principal Amanda Porter.  We also invite you to attend Community Council meetings or to contact any member of the Council to discuss the LAND Trust program http://www.wasatch.edu/domain/562.