OPENING OUR DOORS FOR THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL FOR THE 25th TIME!!

City Academy is one of Utah’s original eight 

tuition-free public charter schools. 

25 years ago, City Academy founders Nancy Winitzky, Tracy Stevens, Peggy McCandless, and Sonia Woodbury had a vision of providing an inspiring, personalized, worthwhile education that would impact students and help launch the rest of their lives both as individuals and as citizens of our communities. 

At City Academy we often say, "We are preparing the types of knowledgeable, caring, community-involved people you would want to live next door to."

To accomplish this, learning through service and community engagement is an integral part of our curriculum from 7th-12th grades in all classes, and through senior service learning internships.

We are grateful for our developing partnership with Gifted Music School, with whom we now share a campus. Even through state budget cuts over the last 25 years, City Academy has maintained a strong commitment to the visual and performing arts as an integral part of a good education. 

Each day at school, our students are not merely completing credits, they are investigating, thinking, analyzing, and learning in personally rigorous and preparatory ways in every class.  We have incredible teachers and staff members who choose to teach at our school and are so passionate about this work with their students. It is a joy to see these teachers taking the time to listen to each student and inspire their individual growth.

This 25th year, we are honoring and celebrating our past – and – we are re-dedicating ourselves to our mission and our future. 

We look forward to serving the Salt Lake City community and our students for 25 more years.  Watch for more exciting additions to our curriculum and our school coming soon!

December, 2022 --  City Academy, through the hard work of our computer science teacher Dennis Pedersen, is 1 of 2 schools in Utah and 1 of only 102 schools across the country that have been recognized by Code.org with the Computer Science Leaders award! This award comes with a prize of $10,000 to help our school enhance computer science education for our students.  

We are proud of Mr. Pedersen’s hard work and commitment that have earned him this very deserved award and we look forward to the new educational opportunities in computer science that we will be able to offer our City Academy students.

Spring 2022 --  City Academy is an active Certiport Authorized Testing Center.  This allows us to offer industry recognized certifications, in areas of computer science and digital media. We will begin by providing preparation and offering certifications for Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) and Adobe Certified Associate (ACA). As we expand our program, we will continue offering students more opportunities for industry recognized certifications.

If you have any questions or would like more information about this program please contact Mr. Pedersen, dennis.pedersen@cityacademyslc.org  

Opportunities In Computer Science

Fall 2021 -- City Academy has launched an expanded Computer Science Career Pathway Program to give every student access to the type of robust computer science education needed for their futures in today's world. All of our middle and high school students are able to take courses in coding, programming, and robotics. For high school students who want more specialized preparation we are now offering certificate programs in two career pathways - Cyber Security and Programming and Software Development. Our maker space will additionally give all students the opportunity to work on individual and team projects as they pursue their interests in computer science and physical computing.  

Features that give our students:

A more flexible approach to middle and high school

A more personalized school experience

An even more interesting learning experience

Opportunity for $4,000 in College Scholarships

●      A school day with flexible hours: 

each student’s schedule tailored to their needs and choices.

●      A wide range of options for learning: 

in class, online, at local colleges, and in our city.

●      Personalized support and mentoring 

to help each student reach their goals.

●      Chromebook Loan to Own Program – each student has use of a loaned City Academy Chromebook for the school year.

●      Classes taught by caring teachers, passionate about their subjects, who enrich learning through activities including labs, class discussion and debate, guest speakers, field work, and use of technology.

●      Opportunities to take classes for college credit, to take internships in career fields, to develop technology and programming skills.

●      A commitment to develop students as citizens, including exploring current issues and developing responsible student voice and engagement.

●      A variety of extra-curricular opportunities, and 

● A dynamic, accepting school community in which every student matters.

To find out how City Academy can be a more flexible, personal, and interesting school for your student, email sonia.woodbury@cityacademyslc.org    

We look forward to hearing from you soon!