Orem High School is the oldest of Orem's three high schools and, thanks to a rebuild finished in 2010, one of the newest buildings. Home of the Tigers, it sits at 175 South 400 East. With 1,240 students in the state's October 2025 count it is the smallest comprehensive district high school in Utah County, and its Class of 2025 graduated at 94.5%, the best rate of the three Orem schools.
It's also about to change hands. Alpine School District dissolves on June 30, 2027, and Orem High moves to the new Timpanogos School District. This guide covers what families ask: the 2026-27 calendar, who attends, the numbers, programs, sports and tickets, and what the 2027 change means. School details are from Orem High's website and athletics site, read Nov. 13, 2026; enrollment and graduation numbers are from the Utah State Board of Education.
Quick facts
| Address | 175 South 400 East, Orem, UT 84097 |
| Main office | 385-579-5540; open 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. weekdays |
| District | Alpine School District through June 30, 2027; then Timpanogos School District |
| Grades | 10 to 12 |
| Students (Oct. 1, 2025) | 1,240 |
| Graduation rate (Class of 2025) | 94.5% |
| Building | Three stories, about 220,000 square feet, completed 2010 |
| Sports | 4A Region 8; football 5A Region 7 (UHSAA, 2025-27) |
| Mascot | Tigers |
The building
Orem High's current building replaced the original school in three phases, according to NWL Architects, which designed it. First came new parking and partial demolition of the old school; then the new building went up while students kept attending; finally the original structure came down and new parking and playing fields took its place. The finished school, completed in 2010, is a three-story, roughly 220,000-square-foot building of brick and metal panels, with classrooms designed to take in daylight and views of the Wasatch and Mount Timpanogos.
That history explains a quirk our Orem high schools explainer points out: Orem High is the oldest of the city's three schools as an institution, and physically among the newest.
Who attends: the boundary
Orem High takes in a slice of east and central Orem. By the district's 2026-27 boundary map, its attendance area covers about 20.8 square miles, much of it undeveloped land east of the city, and about 31% of Orem's land. It doesn't take in any other city.
The feeder schools:
- Junior high: Canyon View Junior High, about 94% of whose area falls inside Orem High's boundary.
- Elementary schools: all of the Cascade, Centennial and Foothill areas, and about a quarter of Orchard Elementary's.
Orem is split three ways, and the lines don't follow streets anyone can name from memory, so two homes a few blocks apart can go to different schools. Check any address on Alpine's school boundary dashboard before you buy or sign a lease. Our Orem High attendance-area page lists the feeders from the district's own map, and the Orem high schools explainer compares all three. Current boundaries stay in force for 2026-27, but the Timpanogos board began a boundary study in May 2026, so lines could move in later years.
What changes in 2027
Alpine was Utah's largest school district, and it is being split in three. On July 1, 2027, three new districts take over: Aspen Peaks in the north, Lake Mountain in the west and Timpanogos in the middle. Timpanogos School District covers Orem, Lindon, Pleasant Grove and Vineyard, and it will run Orem High alongside Mountain View, Pleasant Grove High and Timpanogos High.
What that means for an Orem High family:
- The school stays. Same building and same name, and district leaders have said schools keep their existing staff through the transition.
- The district office changes. Registration, fees, transportation and the school board move to Timpanogos School District for 2027-28.
- The name is confusing. Timpanogos High is one school; Timpanogos School District is the whole district. An Orem High student will be in the Timpanogos district without attending Timpanogos High.
The new district is much smaller than Alpine: 29 schools, including four high schools, five junior highs and twenty elementaries, serving roughly 23,000 students across the four cities. Its board was sworn in at the end of November 2025, and its first superintendent, Jensen, a former principal of Orem Junior High and Timpanogos High, took office in January 2026. For Orem High families, a smaller district means a board and superintendent who cover only four cities, and decisions about buildings and boundaries made closer to home.
Our Timpanogos School District guide tracks the new board, the budget and the boundary studies as they happen.
The 2026-27 calendar
Orem High follows Alpine School District's 2026-27 calendar, which runs on A/B days at the secondary level:
| Date | What happens |
|---|---|
| Aug. 19, 2026 | First day of school |
| Oct. 14 | First term ends |
| Oct. 15 to 16 | Fall break |
| Oct. 19 | Teacher work day, no students |
| Nov. 2 | Teacher development day, no students |
| Nov. 25 to 27 | Thanksgiving break |
| Dec. 18 | Minimal day; second term ends |
| Dec. 21 to Jan. 1 | Winter break |
| Jan. 4, 2027 | Teacher work day; school resumes Jan. 5 |
| Jan. 18 | Martin Luther King Jr. Day |
| Feb. 12 and 15 | Teacher work day; Presidents Day |
| March 10 | High school ACT test |
| March 12 to 15 | Third term ends; four-day weekend |
| April 5 to 9 | Spring break |
| May 28 | Last day of school, minimal day |
Daily bell times are posted on the school's bell schedule page; call the main office if you can't open it. Our Utah County school calendars guide puts Alpine's dates beside Nebo's and Provo's.
Office hours: the main office is open 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. The counseling office is open 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, and 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Wednesday. Attendance, student finance and the counseling office each have their own phone lines, listed on the home page.
Size, students and graduation
Orem High enrolls grades 10 to 12, as most Alpine high schools do; ninth-graders attend junior high. The state's Oct. 1, 2025 count:
| Grade | Students |
|---|---|
| 10th | 415 |
| 11th | 421 |
| 12th | 401 |
| Total (with 3 ninth-graders) | 1,240 |
About 24% of students are Hispanic and 66% white, about 23% are economically disadvantaged, and 85 are English learners, according to the same data.
The graduation numbers stand out. Orem High's Class of 2025, 403 students, graduated at 94.5% with a 3.7% dropout rate. That's above the statewide 89.8% and the best of Orem's three schools: Timpanogos High 91.5%, Mountain View 88.4%. Mountain View serves many more English learners and low-income families, which partly explains the gap; a rate is a starting point for questions, not a ranking. Our graduation rates guide has every county high school, and the enrollment guide shows how Orem's schools have been shrinking.
Orem's three high schools side by side
From the same state data, Oct. 1, 2025 enrollment and the Class of 2025:
| Orem High | Mountain View | Timpanogos High | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Students | 1,240 | 1,568 | 1,561 |
| Graduation rate | 94.5% | 88.4% | 91.5% |
| Hispanic students | 24% | 36% | 25% |
| Economically disadvantaged | 23% | 30% | 20% |
| English learners | 85 | 239 | 127 |
| Main junior high | Canyon View | Lakeridge, Orem Jr | Orem Jr, Oak Canyon |
Orem High is the smallest of the three by about 320 students. When you visit, ask how that size plays out in practice: typical class sizes, how many students try out for the teams your student cares about, and how many sections of advanced or specialized courses run each year. Smaller schools sometimes make it easier to get involved and harder to offer a long list of electives, and the answers differ by school and by year.
Programs
Orem High's website highlights ProStart, a two-year program that prepares students for careers in restaurants and food service. Other links on the home page cover the practical side of high school:
- Driver's education, with its own page for registration.
- Transcript requests, through an online form.
- School fees, posted as a document that lists each class and activity fee.
- Skyward, Alpine's student information system, for grades and registration, and Canvas for coursework.
- The PTSA, with its own page.
Activity pass: the school's 2026-27 information sheet lists a $30 activity pass that gets students into school events. Activity and ID cards are handed out on school picture day and are required for dances, games and other activities, so don't skip picture day.
College credit through UVU. Like most Utah County high schools, Orem High students can take concurrent enrollment classes, college courses that count for both high school and college credit. Utah Valley University runs the program for 64 high schools. Its requirements: a 3.0 GPA (2.0 for career and technical classes), the state's concurrent enrollment participation form, and a meeting with an advisor, which UVU recommends. Students register for each class by its course number, and tuition is paid to UVU at a reduced rate; UVU says the average student saves $2,276. For fall 2026, tuition was due Oct. 26; spring dates are on UVU's concurrent enrollment calendar.
The school's home page doesn't list its AP classes, its on-campus concurrent enrollment courses or its CTE pathways. Ask the counseling office which AP and college-credit classes run in a given year, since those depend on staffing.
Sports
Under the Utah High School Activities Association's 2025-27 alignment, Orem plays most sports in 4A Region 8, with Deer Creek, Mountain View, Provo, Summit Academy, Timpanogos, Uintah and Wasatch. For football, Orem plays up in 5A Region 7 with Maple Mountain, Payson, Pleasant Grove, Spanish Fork, Springville and Timpview. The school's athletics site also files boys basketball under the Region 7 handbook, so check the schedule for that team.
Sports on the athletics site:
- Fall: football, girls volleyball, girls soccer, girls tennis, cross country, boys golf
- Winter: boys and girls basketball, boys and girls wrestling, competitive cheer, coed swimming
- Spring: baseball, softball, boys and girls lacrosse, boys tennis, boys soccer, boys volleyball, girls golf, track and field
This fall's highlights on the site included a 55-28 football win over Payson with 34 points in the first quarter, a volleyball team at the top of Region 8, and cross country hosting the Region 8 championships, where Orem's boys took second and girls third. The athletic director is Jeremy Main.
Tickets: buy them on the Vega app or website (search "Orem High School"). The athletics site says gates take credit and debit cards but not cash, so don't show up with only bills. Our high school football guide and sports calendar cover the season countywide.
Enrolling a new student
- Confirm your boundary on Alpine School District's school boundary dashboard.
- Register through Skyward, Alpine's student information system, linked from the school's home page.
- Bring documents: proof of residence, birth certificate, immunization records, and any transcripts or IEP from a previous school.
- Call the counseling office (385-579-5541) to set up a schedule, keeping in mind its early close on Wednesdays.
Families outside the boundary can request Orem High through Alpine's open enrollment process. Starting with the 2027-28 school year, those requests go to Timpanogos School District instead.
What parents ask
Which Orem high school will my student attend? It depends on the address, not the neighborhood name. Orem High covers part of east and central Orem; Mountain View the west side and Vineyard; Timpanogos High north Orem.
Does Orem High have ninth grade? Only a handful of ninth-graders appear in the state count. Ninth grade is at Canyon View Junior High.
Is Orem High affected by the closure studies? The incoming Timpanogos board's Aug. 26, 2026 agenda included closure studies for several schools, among them Canyon View Junior High, Orem High's main feeder, and the Foothill and Orchard elementaries. No closures had been adopted, and Orem High itself wasn't on that list. Our Timpanogos School District guide follows those studies.
Will Orem High's sports region change? The current alignment runs through the 2026-27 school year. The UHSAA sets the next one; until it's announced, nobody can say where Orem lands.
How do I reach a specific office? The home page lists separate lines for attendance (385-579-5542), student finance (385-579-5544), school finance (385-579-5543) and counseling (385-579-5541).
Related guides
- Orem's three high schools explained
- Timpanogos High School guide
- Orem High attendance area and feeder schools
- Mountain View High School guide
- Timpanogos School District guide
- Alpine School District guide
- Utah County high school graduation rates
- Utah County school calendars 2026-27
- High school football in Utah County
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Sources
The facts in this guide were checked against these sources. Hours, fees and rules change, so confirm anything time-sensitive with the source before you go. How we make Provo.com.
- Fall Enrollment by Grade Level and Demographics, October 1, School Year 2025-2026, Utah State Board of Education. Checked November 13, 2026.
- High School Cohort Graduation Rates, 2025, Utah State Board of Education. Checked November 13, 2026.
- AllBoundaries2627 (School Boundary Dashboard layer), Alpine School District. Checked November 13, 2026.
- Alpine School District 2026-2027 Calendar, Alpine School District. Checked November 13, 2026.
- Concurrent Enrollment, Utah Valley University. Checked November 13, 2026.
- Orem High School. Checked November 13, 2026.
- Orem Tiger Athletics, Orem High School. Checked November 13, 2026.
- School Year Info 2026-27, Orem High School. Checked November 13, 2026.
- Orem High School Replacement, NWL Architects. Checked November 13, 2026.
- 2025-27 UHSAA Alignment, Utah High School Activities Association. Checked November 13, 2026.
