Murray High School is the only high school in the Murray City School District in Murray, Utah Murray is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 34,024 at the 2000 census. Murray is known for its central location in Salt Lake County, as well as home to the Intermountain Medical Center and extensive park system. Murray High School is one of the smallest high schools in the Salt Lake City Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC. With an estimated population of 183,171, the city lies in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which has a total estimated population of 1,130,293. Salt Lake City is further situated in a larger urban metropolitan area with 1,585 students enrolled in the 2008-2009 school year, the school enrolls students in grades 10-12. The school's mascot is the Spartan Sparta or Lacedaemon, was a prominent city-state in ancient Greece, situated on the banks of the River Eurotas in Laconia, in south-eastern Peloponnese. It emerged as a political entity around the 10th century BC, when the invading Dorians subjugated the local, non-Dorian population. From c. 650 BC it rose to become the dominant military land-, the school colors are orange and black (Past Orange and Purple). Murray High is a 5-A school in Utah's 5 Division high school sports leagues (1A being the smallest, and 5A being the largest). Murray High School is well known on television for its part in many Disney Channel Disney Channel is an American basic cable and satellite television network, with its headquarters located on West Alameda Ave. in Burbank, California. The channel is owned by the Disney-ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company under Disney-ABC Television Group President Anne Sweeney. Disney Channels Worldwide is a global portfolio Movies and TV programs, the recent, High School Musical: Get in the Picture High School Musical: Get in the Picture is a reality-based TV series, which debuted July 20, 2008 on the television channel ABC. Stan Carrizosa was named the winner on September 8, 2008. Tierney Chamberlain was the runner-up[1] and is the high school which American Idol (season 7) The seventh season of American Idol, the annual reality show and singing competition, began on January 15, 2008 and concluded on May 21, 2008. Ryan Seacrest continued to host the show with Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul, and Randy Jackson returning as judges. David Cook was announced the winner of the competition on May 21, 2008, defeating runner-up runner-up winner David Archuleta David James Archuleta is an American pop singer-songwriter, best selling author and occasional actor. At ten years old he won the children's division of the Utah Talent Competition leading to other television singing appearances. When he was twelve years old, Archuleta became the Junior Vocal Champion on Star Search 2. In 2007, at sixteen years attended[2], the school is also known for offering the highest amount of Salt Lake Community College Concurrent Enrollment classes in the state of Utah.[3]

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Building history

Murray High School was originally located on the east side of State Street at the current Hillcrest Junior High location, another Murray City School District School, at 126 East 5300 South Murray, UT. From 1916-54 Hillcrest Junior High was renamed Murray High and Junior High, and then served specifically as Murray Junior High from 1954-1960. It was rebuilt and moved across to the west side of State Street in 1954 1954 was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar). The colors and mascot also were different from what they are currently, the old mascot was the Smelterites from the historic and famous Murray Smoke Stacks and the old school colors were purple and orange. The building was replaced because of new earthquake codes in which it would be to expensive to upgrade the school, and with the fast change in technology in education led to its demolition in 2001.

New building

Murray High is the newest school in the Murray School District, opened in 2003 2003 was a common year that started on a Wednesday, according to the Gregorian calendar. It was the 2003rd year of the Common Era or the Anno Domini designation; the 3rd year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century; and the 4th of the 2000s decade to serve around 1,600 students. The 260,000-square-foot (24,000 m2), 3 level school is built on the same 21 acres (85,000 m2) as the previous high school. MHS is a state-of-the-art building: with natural lighting in almost every classroom, a commons area which serves as a lunchroom and a lobby for evening performances, wireless Internet connections in every classroom, a geothermal heating and cooling system which would reduce future energy bills 10-20%, an expanded auditorium, retrofitted for earthquakes one of the great improvements from the old building, two gyms, and a courtyard which is used greatly as an extension of the lunchroom and serves as the venue for MHS Arts Fest held every year. The building design of the new Murray High School focuses on greatly improving the academic environment and better serves students, faculty, and teachers than what the old building would have provided.

Murray High School's main entrance and plaza.

Academics

Going green

At the beginning of the 2007-2008 year, administrators, along with MHS's Environmental Club, started a program to save energy and money. Adjustments at the school, and other schools and offices in the district, will include changes to the thermostats; and during weekends and long breaks, copy machines and computers are unplugged, and running water to restrooms is turned off. Also, students at Murray High participate in a recycling program in which students may throw their trash into recycling bins placed throughout the school.[7] Since its beginnings, the district has saved $405,000, all of which went into teachers' budgets. It is projected that in four years the district will have saved one million dollars, or a twenty percent savings per month. [8]

Films and other productions shot at Murray

Disney filmed three movies at the high school: A few of the scenes from the wrestling movie Take Down Take Down is a 1979 sports movie about an unqualified teacher who finds himself saddled with coaching duties after a small group of high school seniors form a wrestling team in a last ditch effort to end a 9-year losing streak against a rival school (1978) was filmed prior to the rebuilding, Read It and Weep Read It and Weep is a 2006 Disney Channel Original Movie which premiered on July 21, 2006. It is based on the novel by Julia DeVillers. Sisters Kay and Danielle Panabaker star as Jamie Bartlett and her alter ego Isabella (Iz or Is), respectively. Both sisters have starred in previous Disney Channel movies: Kay in Life Is Ruff, and Danielle in (2006), the auditorium scene of High School Musical High School Musical is a 2006 American television film, first in the High School Musical film franchise. Upon its release on January 20, 2006, it became the most successful film that Disney Channel Original Movie ever produced, with a television sequel High School Musical 2 released in 2007 and the feature film High School Musical 3: Senior Year(2006), Minutemen Minutemen is a 2008 science-fiction Disney Channel Original Movie. It stars Jason Dolley from Disney Channel Original Series Cory in the House. The movie is written by John Killoran with a story by David Diamond & David Weissman and was directed by Lev L. Spiro. Andrew Gunn, Ann Marie Sanderlin and Doug Sloan are the executive producers. The (2008)[9], High School Musical: Get in the Picture High School Musical: Get in the Picture is a reality-based TV series, which debuted July 20, 2008 on the television channel ABC. Stan Carrizosa was named the winner on September 8, 2008. Tierney Chamberlain was the runner-up (2008), [10]and was the host venue for American Idol (season 7) The seventh season of American Idol, the annual reality show and singing competition, began on January 15, 2008 and concluded on May 21, 2008. Ryan Seacrest continued to host the show with Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul, and Randy Jackson returning as judges. David Cook was announced the winner of the competition on May 21, 2008, defeating runner-up runner-up winner David Archuleta David James Archuleta is an American pop singer-songwriter, best selling author and occasional actor. At ten years old he won the children's division of the Utah Talent Competition leading to other television singing appearances. When he was twelve years old, Archuleta became the Junior Vocal Champion on Star Search 2. In 2007, at sixteen years homecoming television episode. [11]

Disney has always donated generous amounts of funds to help and thank Murray High for having them film inside and outside the building and is expecting to film more films at the school in the future.

Sport State Titles

NOTE: State championships for all sports can be viewed at the Utah High School Activities Association (UHSAA) web site.

Sports National Titles

Notable alumni

References

  1. ^ ksl.com - ‘High School Musical' reality show wraps up filming
  2. ^ a b Deseret News | Murray High teen moving up on 'Idol'
  3. ^ http://www.schools.utah.gov/curr/accred/reports/TeamReports/MurrayHS.pdf
  4. ^ http://www.ksl.com/sid=6258271&nid=691&sch_id=5948808 ksl.com-Principal's Letter
  5. ^ Computer Based Testing | Utah State Office of Education
  6. ^ http://www.ksl.com/sid=6258271&nid=691&sch_id=5948808 ksl.com-Principal's Letter
  7. ^ Going Green
  8. ^ http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=6796931 ksl.com-'Saving energy is saving teachers' jobs'
  9. ^ Deseret Morning News | Disney moment for Murray, Highland
  10. ^ ksl.com - ‘High School Musical' reality show wraps up filming
  11. ^ http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=3238568 ksl.com KSL Channel 5 News| 'Homecoming being planned for Utah's American Idol contestant'
  12. ^ a b c d e f g h Sport State Titles
  13. ^ http://www.murrayhockey.com Official Murray Hockey Page
  14. ^
  15. ^ 2005 USA Hockey National Champions
  16. ^ BASKETBOL - Britton Johnsen, Galatasaray Cafe Crown’da - 30.01.2008 20:27:00

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