Davis School District is a

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, United States. Headquartered in the

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of Farmington, it is the 61st largest school district in the United States and the 2nd largest school district in

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with 72,987 students attending Davis schools as of 2019. It is located almost entirely within Davis County. Students attend elementary school from kindergarten to 6th grade, junior high from 7th grade-9th grade, and high school from 10th grade-12th grade.

History

In 2006, the Davis School District received recognition for having the nation's top graduation rate among the 100 largest school districts in the United States, according to a survey by the

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. Also in 2006, the superintendent, Dr. W. Bryan Bowles was awarded superintendent of the year in Utah. In 2012, district administrators were sued by the

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for deciding to remove the book '' In Our Mothers’ House'' by children's author Patricia Polacco from the shelves of their elementary school libraries due to its content about

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mothers. The district returned the book to shelves a few months later. For the 2016–17 school year, Reid Newey moved from the Weber School District to become the superintendent of DSD. In 2019, a Davis school bus driver closed the bus doors on the backpack of a boy, pinning him outside the bus and dragging him forward over 150 feet. His family sued the driver, alleging this was done intentionally to racially harass the boy, who was

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. They pointed to previous instances of racial harassment by the driver and attempts at retaliation for reporting him. The district settled the suit in 2021 for $62,500 and acknowledged the racial assault. The incident also sparked a three-year investigation into the Davis School District by the

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(DOJ). That investigation found that racial harassment was widespread in the school district and hundreds of complaints were intentionally unaddressed.

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and Asian students in the district faced a hostile environment where they were subjected to racial slurs, and Davis School District employees responded to complaints by telling them "not to be so sensitive or akingexcuses for harassing students by explaining that they were 'not trying to be racist'". The DOJ required the district to create a plan to address the systemic problems moving forward which included changing its policies, offering more training, and creating an equity department for racial discrimination complaints with a director that is approved by the federal government. In 2021, a ten-year-old black girl who attended the District's Foxboro Elementary School committed suicide due to racist bullying, sparking national outcry. An independent investigation that was commissioned by the district found that staff had joined in on the mistreatment of the girl. In 2023, her family was awarded $2 million in a civil rights settlement, to be paid by Davis School District. In 2023, the district removed the

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from its elementary and middle schools while keeping it in high schools after a committee reviewed the scripture in response to a parental complaint. The district has removed other titles, including

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Communities

Davis School District, which has the same boundaries as that of Davis County, serves the following communities:
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(most of the land area) * Kaysville * Layton * North Salt Lake * South Weber *

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* West Bountiful *

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* Woods Cross

Schools

The following schools are part of Davis School District:

Elementary schools

* Adams Elementary - Layton * Adelaide Elementary - Bountiful * Antelope Elementary - Clearfield * Bluff Ridge Elementary -

* Boulton Elementary - Bountiful * Bountiful Elementary - Bountiful * Buffalo Point Elementary -

* H.C. Burton Elementary - Kaysville * Canyon Creek Elementary - Farmington * Centerville Elementary - Centerville * Clinton Elementary - Clinton * Columbia Elementary - Kaysville * Cook Elementary -

* Creekside Elementary - Kaysville * Crestview Elementary - Layton * Doxey Elementary -

* Eagle Bay Elementary - Farmington * East Layton Elementary - Layton * Ellison Park Elementary - Layton * Endeavour Elementary - Kaysville * Farmington Elementary - Farmington * Foxboro Elementary - North Salt Lake * Heritage Elementary - Layton * Hill Field Elementary - Clearfield * Holbrook Elementary - Bountiful * Holt Elementary - Clearfield * Island View Elementary -

* Kay's Creek Elementary - Kaysville * Kaysville Elementary - Kaysville * King Elementary - Layton * Knowlton Elementary - Farmington * Lakeside Elementary -

* Layton Elementary - Layton * Lincoln Elementary - Layton * Meadowbrook Elementary - Bountiful * Morgan Elementary - Kaysville * Mountain View Elementary - Layton * Muir Elementary - Bountiful * Oak Hills Elementary - Bountiful * Odyssey Elementary - Woods Cross * Orchard Elementary - North Salt Lake * Parkside Elementary - Clinton * Reading Elementary - Centerville * Sand Springs Elementary - Layton * Snow Horse Elementary - Kaysville * South Clearfield Elementary - Clearfield * South Weber Elementary - South Weber * Stewart Elementary - Centerville * Sunset Elementary -

* Syracuse Elementary -

* Taylor Elementary - Centerville * Tolman Elementary - Bountiful * Vae View Elementary - Layton * Valley View Elementary - Bountiful * Wasatch Elementary - Clearfield * West Bountiful Elementary - West Bountiful * West Clinton Elementary - Clinton * West Point Elementary -

* Whitesides Elementary - Layton * Windridge Elementary - Kaysville * Woods Cross Elementary - Woods Cross

Junior high schools

* Bountiful Junior High School - Bountiful * Centennial Junior High School - Kaysville * Centerville Junior High School - Centerville * Central Davis Junior High School - Layton * Fairfield Junior High School - Kaysville * Farmington Junior High School - Farmington * Kaysville Junior High School - Kaysville * Legacy Junior High School - Layton * Millcreek Junior High School - Bountiful * Mueller Park Junior High School - Bountiful * North Davis Junior High School - Clearfield * North Layton Junior High School - Layton * South Davis Junior High School - Bountiful * Sunset Junior High School -

* Syracuse Junior High School -

* Shoreline Junior High School - Layton * West Point Junior High School -

High schools

* Bountiful High School - Bountiful * Clearfield High School - Clearfield * Davis Connect 7-12 - Layton * Davis High School - Kaysville * Farmington High School - Farmington *

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- Layton * Northridge High School - Layton * Syracuse High School -

* Viewmont High School - Bountiful * Woods Cross High School - Woods Cross

Special schools

* Family Enrichment Center - Kaysville * Mountain High School - Kaysville * Pioneer Adult Rehabilitation Center - Clearfield * Renaissance Academy - Kaysville * Vista education campus - Farmington

Notes

References

External links

*
Davis Education Foundation

DavisParents.org - Parent Advocacy Group
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