Even though Principal Ken Limb is concerned about enrollment for Salt Lake Virtual Elementary dropping by hundreds of students, he’s also excited about the individual attention teachers will give students because of smaller classes.
Laura Jettison leads her virtual fifth grade class in a science lesson from Parkview Elementary School in Salt Lake City, Monday, Sept. 19, 2022.Salt Lake Virtual Elementary debuted last year in the Salt Lake City School District, teaching kindergarten through sixth grade classes online to 259 kids.That plunge is a concern for Principal Ken Limb.
Here’s how other Utah virtual schools are doing, two years after students were forced to learn online in the spring of 2020 and many stayed out of classrooms that fall.Mountain Heights Academy, a virtual public charter school that opened in 2009, had seen its enrollment gradually increase and reach 800 students before the school year that began in the fall of 2019, said Principal DeLaina Tonks.
“It’s very gratifying to see students be able to be in the driver’s seat and choose a schedule that fits their needs,” Tonks said. In Jordan School District, Kings Peak High School reached its capacity of 250 full-time students by the end of its first school year, in 2021-22. Around 2,000 others took at least one class at the school, which had to hire more teachers in the summer.
Jordan’s Virtual Learning Academy accommodates students throughout K-12 in its three schools — Rocky Peak Elementary, Kelsey Peak Middle and Kings Peak High. Any student who lives in Utah can take a class at Kings Peak.While small classes can benefit students, Limb acknowledges that he wants to see enrollment grow at Salt Lake Virtual Elementary so the district will “continue to have our school going,” he said. “I think there are people out there who still haven’t heard about us.
Limb has heard from parents who decided to enroll their child in the wake of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where an 18-year-old fatally shot 19 students and two teachers, and wounded 17 others. “I don’t want students to have to be in our school because of fear,” Limb said. “But those are factors.”
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