Salem Hills High School serves Salem, Woodland Hills, Elk Ridge and most of Payson's east side. Home of the Skyhawks, it sits at 150 North Skyhawk Boulevard in Salem and enrolled 1,513 students in the state's October 2025 count. Its Class of 2025 graduated at 95.6%, well above the statewide 89.8%, and in 2025-26 it won state titles in softball and girls wrestling.
This guide covers what families ask: the 2026-27 bell schedule, the Nebo calendar, who attends, the numbers, college credit (with the spring deadlines), sports and tickets. Salem Hills is in Nebo School District, which is not part of the Alpine split, so nothing about the district changes in 2027. School details are from Salem Hills' website and its posted 2026-27 bell schedule, read Nov. 13, 2026; enrollment and graduation figures are from the Utah State Board of Education.
Quick facts
| Address | 150 North Skyhawk Boulevard, Salem, UT 84653 |
| Phone | (801) 423-3200 |
| District | Nebo School District |
| Grades | 10 to 12 |
| Students (Oct. 1, 2025) | 1,513 |
| Graduation rate (Class of 2025) | 95.6% |
| School day | 7:50 a.m. to 2:25 p.m., five periods |
| Sports | 5A Region 7; football 4A Region 8 (UHSAA, 2025-27) |
| Mascot | Skyhawks |
Who attends: the boundary
By the district's boundary map, Salem Hills' attendance area covers about 48.4 square miles of the south county's bench and farmland:
- all of Salem and Woodland Hills,
- about 96% of Elk Ridge,
- about 59% of Payson's land (the rest goes to Payson High),
- about 25% of Spring Lake,
- and a sliver, about 4%, of Santaquin.
The feeder schools:
- Middle and junior high: all of Salem Junior High and Valley View Middle School.
- Elementary schools: all of the Barnett, Mount Loafer and Salem areas, and nearly all of Foothills and Taylor (99% each).
Payson is the city to watch. It splits between Salem Hills and Payson High, and the line doesn't follow a single road, so neighbors can end up at different schools. Check any address with Nebo School District before you buy or rent. Our Salem Hills attendance-area page lists the feeders.
The district: Nebo, and no split
Salem Hills is one of Nebo School District's high schools, along with Maple Mountain, Payson, Spanish Fork and Springville. Nebo covers the south end of Utah County, from Springville and Mapleton to Santaquin and Goshen. Unlike the Alpine schools to the north, Nebo isn't splitting: the district, its board, its calendar and its registration process stay the same. Our Nebo School District guide covers the district as a whole.
The 2026-27 bell schedule
Salem Hills posts its bell schedules as a spreadsheet linked from the home page. Unlike Alpine and Provo high schools, which alternate A and B days, Salem Hills runs five periods every day.
Regular day:
| Period | Time |
|---|---|
| 1st | 7:50 to 8:57 |
| 2nd (with "Skyhawk Minute") | 9:02 to 10:14 |
| 3rd | 10:19 to 11:26 |
| Lunch | 11:26 to 12:01 |
| 4th | 12:06 to 1:13 |
| 5th | 1:18 to 2:25 |
Second period runs a few minutes longer than the others to fit the Skyhawk Minute, which the schedule builds into that period every day.
The spreadsheet lists several other schedules:
- Extended lunch: a 50-minute lunch from 11:20 to 12:05, same start and end times.
- Monday minimal day: five 60-minute periods, lunch 11 to 11:30, out at 1:40 p.m.
- Monday makeup schedule: five 55-minute periods ending at 1:15 p.m., followed by makeup time from 1:15 to 3:15 and teacher collaboration from 3:15 to 4.
- Early out (half day): five short periods ending at 11:15 a.m.
- AM assembly: a 50-minute assembly from 10 to 10:50.
Teacher office hours. Salem Hills also posts a spreadsheet of teacher office hours, each teacher's after-school window (most list 3 to 3:30 p.m. on a set weekday), room number and preferred way to meet. It's the fastest way to know when your student can get help or make up work.
The 2026-27 calendar
Salem Hills follows Nebo School District's 2026-27 calendar, which runs 180 school days and starts and ends a little earlier than Alpine's:
| Date | What happens |
|---|---|
| Tue., Aug. 18, 2026 | School begins |
| Mon., Sept. 7 | Labor Day |
| Mon., Sept. 21 | Staff development day, half day |
| Wed., Oct. 14 | First term ends |
| Oct. 15 to 19 | Fall break |
| Nov. 25 to 27 | Thanksgiving |
| Fri., Dec. 18 | Half day; second term ends |
| Dec. 21 to Jan. 1 | Christmas break |
| Mon., Jan. 4, 2027 | Third term begins |
| Mon., Jan. 18 | Martin Luther King Jr. Day |
| Fri., Feb. 12 | District development day, no students |
| Mon., Feb. 15 | Presidents Day |
| Fri., March 12 | Third term ends |
| Wed., March 17 | Staff development day, half day |
| Fri., March 26 | Good Friday, half day |
| April 5 to 9 | Spring break |
| Wed., May 26 | Last day of school |
Nebo starts a day before Alpine (Aug. 18 versus Aug. 19) and ends two days earlier (May 26 versus May 28), and it's the only one of the county's three big districts that marks Good Friday on its calendar, as a half day. Our Utah County school calendars guide puts Nebo beside Alpine and Provo.
Size, students and graduation
The state's Oct. 1, 2025 count:
| Grade | Students |
|---|---|
| 10th | 495 |
| 11th | 531 |
| 12th | 487 |
| Total | 1,513 |
About 12% of students are Hispanic and about 83% white; 14% are economically disadvantaged, and 29 are English learners. The Class of 2025, 520 students, graduated at 95.6% with a 4.0% dropout rate.
Nebo's five high schools side by side
| Students | Grad rate 2025 | Econ. disadvantaged | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maple Mountain | 1,897 | 96.2% | 11.6% |
| Springville | 1,632 | 95.7% | 20.6% |
| Salem Hills | 1,513 | 95.6% | 14.0% |
| Payson | 1,680 | 94.8% | 23.3% |
| Spanish Fork | 1,565 | 93.6% | 18.4% |
Every one of Nebo's five comprehensive high schools beat the state rate, and the spread among them is under three points. Salem Hills is the smallest of the five. Our graduation rates guide has every county school.
College credit: AP and UVU
Salem Hills' concurrent enrollment page is one of the most practical in the county.
Concurrent enrollment (CE) classes are taught at Salem Hills by university-approved high school teachers, for credit through Utah Valley University. The school says CE credit transfers to all of Utah's public colleges; private colleges set their own rules. UVU charges a one-time admission fee plus $5 per credit hour. Some rules worth knowing:
- Students must take the ACT or Accuplacer before enrolling in CE English or math.
- CE classes can't be dropped after the college's withdrawal deadline; a student who quits after that gets a failing grade on a college transcript.
- A CE scholarship application is available for families who need help with costs.
- Only a few CE classes are offered online, and the student is fully responsible for registering and keeping up.
Spring 2027 deadlines posted by the school:
| Date | Deadline |
|---|---|
| Jan. 27 | UVU admissions closes |
| Jan. 28 | Registration closes |
| Jan. 29 | Late registration ends ($15 fee) |
| Feb. 17 | Last day to drop without a W |
| March 12 | Last day to withdraw with a W |
| March 22 | Tuition due |
New CE students apply online at UVU first (it takes a Social Security number), then wait three to five days for a UV ID before registering. The school's advice: use a personal email, not a school or parent address, and save the UV ID and password in your phone. Students aiming for an associate degree or general education certificate in high school should meet early with UVU's advisers; the school notes the UVU adviser's office is nearby, at the Advanced Learning Center in Salem. The school's CE coordinator works out of room C-100, where the school held drop-in registration help from 2 to 6 p.m. on Aug. 12 before fall classes started; watch for a similar session before the January deadlines.
Advanced Placement. AP exams are scored 1 to 5, and a 3 or higher earns credit at many colleges, though each sets its own policy. There's a fee for each exam, students don't have to take the test, and failing scores don't appear on college transcripts. AP test registration is linked from the home page.
Career and technical education
Salem Hills' CTE pages are built around getting students out of the classroom. The school offers CTE programs taught at two local technical centers: the ALC (Nebo's Advanced Learning Center) and Mountainland Technical College (MTECH), alongside its own classes. The CTE section links to:
- Internships and a career fair.
- CTE pathways, the state's sequences of related courses that lead toward a career area, with Utah's pathway guidebook.
- Career and technical student organizations (CTSOs), the clubs tied to CTE courses, such as FFA. The school says students are "highly encouraged" to join one.
- CTE Students of the Year, recognized each spring.
The school says students can earn industry-recognized certifications, meet guest speakers from industry and take field trips to job sites. FFA is a visible example: this fall the school reported its range science team took first place. If your student is leaning toward a trade, ask counseling how ALC and MTECH classes fit into the five-period day and how transportation works.
Questions to ask on a visit
- Which AP and CE classes run this year, and which CE classes need an ACT or Accuplacer score?
- How do ALC and MTECH classes fit the schedule, and is there a bus?
- How often does the school use the Monday makeup schedule, and who decides which students stay for makeup time?
- What do sports, band and ballroom cost, including travel?
- How are counselors assigned, and when are the College and Career Readiness meetings for each grade?
Sports and activities
Under the UHSAA's 2025-27 alignment, Salem Hills plays most sports in 5A Region 7 with Maple Mountain, Payson, Pleasant Grove, Spanish Fork, Springville and Timpview. For football, it drops to 4A Region 8 with Deer Creek, Mountain View, Park City, Provo, Timpanogos, Uintah and Wasatch.
Recent results:
- Softball won the 2026 5A state title, beating Box Elder two games to one, the program's first state championship since 2014, KSL reported.
- Girls wrestling won the school's first 5A girls state wrestling title in February 2026, 211 points to Wasatch's 191, under coach TJ Brindley, the Daily Herald reported.
- Football opened the 2026 playoffs at home against Mountain Crest and reached the 4A quarterfinals, where it lost to Hurricane 29-28 in overtime.
- Girls basketball won the school's first state title in 2018, 57-35 over Hurricane.
- Beyond sports, the school's news feed this fall reported the marching band placing third in 5A at the Davis Cup with a school-record score, and the FFA range science team taking first place.
Tickets: sold through Vega, on the Skyhawks page linked from the home page. For the 2026 home playoff game, the school said Salem Hills students got in free with a current student ID. Our high school football guide and sports calendar cover the county.
Enrolling a new student
- Confirm your boundary with Nebo School District, especially in Payson, Spring Lake and Elk Ridge.
- Register through the school's registration page and Nebo's online system.
- Bring documents: proof of residence, birth certificate, immunization records, and any transcripts or IEP.
- Pay fees through Nebo's SchoolCash Online once classes are set; Nebo posts its district fee schedule.
What parents ask
Salem Hills or Payson High? It depends on the address. Most of Payson's land is in Salem Hills' area, but the city splits.
Why does Salem Hills play football in 4A and everything else in 5A? The UHSAA can place a school's football team in a different classification from its other sports. The current alignment runs through 2026-27.
When can my student get help from a teacher? Check the posted teacher office hours, usually 3 to 3:30 p.m. on a set day, and the Monday makeup time on weeks that use that schedule.
Is Nebo changing districts like Alpine? No. Nebo stays whole; the Alpine split covers only the north and west of the county.
Related guides
- Nebo School District guide
- Payson High School guide
- Utah County high school graduation rates
- Utah County school calendars 2026-27
- High school football in Utah County
- Timpview High School guide
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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.
- Salem Hills High School. Checked November 13, 2026.
- SHHS 26-27 Bell Schedules, Salem Hills High School. Checked November 13, 2026.
- Teacher Office Hours, Salem Hills High School. Checked November 13, 2026.
- Concurrent Enrollment, Salem Hills High School. Checked November 13, 2026.
- Career & Technical Education (CTE), Salem Hills High School. Checked November 13, 2026.
- Fall Enrollment by Grade Level and Demographics, 2025-26, Utah State Board of Education. Checked November 13, 2026.
- 2025-27 UHSAA Alignment, Utah High School Activities Association. Checked November 13, 2026.
- 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.
- Academic School Year Calendar 2026-2027 (Board Approval 9/10/2025), Nebo School District. Checked November 13, 2026.
- Concurrent Enrollment, Utah Valley University. Checked November 13, 2026.
- High school softball: Salem Hills defense powers 1st 5A title since 2014, KSL. Checked November 13, 2026.
- Salem Hills girls surmount Wasatch to claim their first 5A state wrestling championship, Daily Herald. Checked November 13, 2026.
- Salem Hills topples Hurricane for school's first girls basketball title, KSL. Checked November 13, 2026.
- High school football quarterfinal recap, Deseret News. Checked November 13, 2026.
