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2025-26 School Year

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Enroll Now with Ascent Academies of Utah. Join us in providing your child with an award-winning education at our tuition-free public charter school.

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2025-26 School Year

Now Enrolling

Enroll Now with Ascent Academies of Utah. Join us in providing your child with an award-winning education at our tuition-free public charter school.

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Big News

RISE Test Scores Up!

RISE scores meet or exceed state average. Our state RISE scores have soared in math, language arts, and science across nearly all grades. 

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Big News

RISE Test Scores Up!

RISE scores meet or exceed state average. Our state RISE scores have soared in math, language arts, and science across nearly all grades. 

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Learner Profile

Individualized Learning

How does your child learn best? We customize and enrich each student's education based on their unique learner profile.

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Learner Profile

Individualized Learning

How does your child learn best? We customize and enrich each student's education based on their unique learner profile.

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Every Friday

Student-led Classes

Our Friday Enrichment Clusters allow groups of students who share a common interest to come together to produce a product, performance, or targeted service based on that common interest.

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Every Friday

Student-led Classes

Our Friday Enrichment Clusters allow groups of students who share a common interest to come together to produce a product, performance, or targeted service based on that common interest.

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Our Mission

A K-9 tuition-free, public charter school—our passion is discovering how each child learns best!

How does your child learn best? Ascent Academies of Utah gets to the heart of each student by discovering their individual Learning Profile. This survey details their strengths and preferences for success in the classroom. We customize and enrich your child's education based on this information. 

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Experience the Difference at AAU

“My son goes to Ascent Academy, I want to enroll my daughter as well. My daughter is struggling at her elementary with the overcrowded school. We’ve seen such an improvement with our sons success at Ascent, and we know our daughter will benefit as well.”

- Courtney F.,  AAU parent

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5 Campuses in Utah

We have campuses in Farmington, West Valley, West Jordan, Lehi, and Saratoga Springs. 

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Tuition-Free

All of our five academies are tuition-free public schools

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Safe School Culture

We serve students of all income levels, cultural backgrounds, and academic abilities. 

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Discovering How Each Child Learns Best

We customize and enrich your child's education based on their unique Learning Profile.

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Small Class Sizes

Each student is known. Our small class sizes allow students to focus their abilities on solving problems in areas that have personal relevance to the them.

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Student-led Classes

Every Friday, students have the choice of what topic to study as a way to boost passion for new subjects and build confidence.

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Enthusiasm for learning

Student-led classes that build confidence.

AAU sponsors weekly 90-minute (45 minutes for kindergarten) Enrichment Clusters that provide students a choice of what to they wish to learn. This unique program is designed to let students not only select the topic of study but also find community experts to teach. This encourages a love of learning, develops talents, and builds confidence for success in core classes.

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5 locations across Utah
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2,850 students and counting...

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Unlimited ways to customize your child's education

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Celebrating 10
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Award-winning Utah Charter School

We are proud of our staff at Ascent Academies of Utah for receiving a whopping 17 nominations from the Utah Association of Public Charter Schools (UAPCS) in 2024! We received nominations in the following categories: Best Administrator, Best Teacher, Best Rookie, Best Employee, and Best Social Worker. Our amazing staff truly are the best of the best and continue to set the standard in education. Congratulations to all the nominees!

               

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