The Tooele County School Board changed the boundaries for elementary schools that they approved in March during their April 16 meeting.

With the opening of Deseret Peak High School in the fall of 2025, a school district committee has been looking at both secondary and elementary school boundaries with an eye towards maintaining a feeder school system.

In a feeder school system, all of the individual elementary schools send all of their students to the same junior high school. The junior high, in turn, sends all of their students to the same high school.

The board adopted secondary school boundaries during their February 20, 2024, meeting. Those boundaries will go into effect in the fall of 2025.

The Tooele County School Board adopted new boundaries for elementary schools during their March 19 meeting. The motion for the adoption of elementary school boundaries included a modification to change the boundaries of West and Sterling Elementary schools to move between 75 and 150 students from Sterling to West Elementary. There was some concern expressed by board members and others about overcrowding at Sterling Elementary. Sterling Elementary has several special classes, like life skills and special education, that utilize classrooms that lower the capacity of Sterling Elementary.

After the March 19 school board meeting, the boundary committee convened to look at the boundaries for the Tooele area elementary schools.

Instead of pulling Sterling students across Sr-36 to West Elementary, the committee opted to recommend extending Northlake Elementary’s boundary across Main Street to pick up students from Sterling Elementary. West Elemenatry’s boundary was extended west to W. 770 South. Settlement Canyon Elenatry’s boundary was extended across Main Street to Canyon Road.

The boundary changes were adopted by the school board unanimously. It will be effective with the start of the 2024–2025 school year. The new boundaries maintain the feeder school system, according to school district officials.

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