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Merit College Preparatory Academy
Address

1440 West Center Street Springville , Utah 84663
Coordinates	40°10′03″N 111°38′09″W / 40.16750°N 111.63583°W / 40.16750; -111.63583
Information
Type	Public, charter
Established	2008
Authorizer	Utah State Charter School Board
Director	Jacob Dalton^[1]
Grades	7–12
Enrollment	431
Color(s)	Navy, maroon, silver
Mascot	Knight
Website	www.meritprepacademy.org
^[2]

Merit College Preparatory Academy (MCPA) is a public chartered high school serving grades 7–12 in Springville, Utah, United States, which opened in 2008.

Facilities

The school building is a 63,000-square-foot (5,900 m²) ADA-compliant facility on approximately 12 acres (49,000 m²). It has classrooms, foreign language labs, a student store, art, dance, and music rooms, a kitchen and cafeteria, a separate gymnasium, and both indoor and outdoor sports facilities.

Education

Merit Academy uses university-style learning and assessment. The curriculum follows the state core content with some additions. Core subjects are taught by a licensed teacher with two assistants. Core classrooms accommodate 45 students and can be divided into three smaller classrooms of 15 students when required, with a 15:1 student-teacher ratio.

Instructional Focus Tracks

Instructional Focus Tracks (IFTs), starting in the 10th grade, provide specialist teaching. Students can take 6.5 credits, of the total 27 credits they need to graduate, as an intensive focused study in the following areas:

Concurrent Enrollment (College Credit)
Business
Science & Engineering
Science & Math
Computers & Technology
English & Humanities
Foreign Languages
Fine Arts
General Studies
Individualized Focus

Students taking courses in the Business IFT, for example, will start and run their own businesses either online or at the student store, under the direction of Merit's business IFT faculty and volunteer professionals from the community. A student in the Computers & Technology IFT might build a service robot in the Robotics course, or work on a website development team that produces a site for a real company. A student in the Fine Arts IFT might create a composition or short play staged and performed in the theater.

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