COTTONWOOD HIGH SCHOOL (UTAH)

'Cottonwood High School' is a public high school located in Murray, Utah. The current enrollment is 1,957. The mascot is the Cottonwood Colt, and the school colors are black and gold. Cottonwood High belongs to the Granite School District.
The school was built and founded in 1970. Apart from traditional schooling (serving grades 10-12), the facilities are used year-round for many city-wide events, a night school for adults, summer school for young children, and other activities. Cottonwood is also regarded as one of Utah's best high schools for its highly regarded campus and strong academic institution.
Competitively, Cottonwood has established a reputation of perennial excellence in multiple sports. It receives state wide merit in music, forensics, and drama. Cottonwood is also home to the Academy of Mathematics, Engineering, & Science (AMES), a charter school which utilizes unused space in the main school building. Since its inception, AMES and Cottonwood students have had a friendly rivalry. The mascot for AMES is the Archer.
The building itself features what is rumored to be the largest high school auditorium west of the Mississippi River and an innovative layout which includes an open air courtyard, several atriums, and gifts from graduating classes, the most visible of which are a bronze statue of a colt located near the lunchroom and the school's seal in tilework in the main foyer. Seniors at Cottonwood take great pride in the seal and were so enthusiastic in punishing anyone who dared walk across it that it was enclosed in a small guardrail. It is surrounded by display cases filled with the various honors won by the student body over the years.

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See also

★ List of high schools in Utah

★ Academy for Math, Engineering, and Science

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★ Official Cottonwood High website

★ Other information on Cottonwood High School