Welcome to Payson Junior High

Mission Statement

At Payson Junior High School we are dedicated to academic success, social integrity, and responsible citizenship.

Belief Statement

  1. A safe and physically comfortable environment promotes student learning.
  2. Curriculum and instructional practices should incorporate a variety of learning activities to accomodate differences in learning styles.
  3. Each student is a valued individual with unique physical, social, emotional, and intellectual needs.
  4. Education is a shared responsibility of the individual, family, school, and community.
  5. Student Learning is the chief priority of the school.
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Utah Child Protection Registry

The Utah Child Protection Registry it is a free program that is offered to parents, and it allows them to register their family and children’s email addresses, mobile phone numbers, instant messenger IDs, and fax numbers to then restrict adult-oriented solicitations such as tobacco, pornography, and/or gambling from being sent to their inboxes.  To go to the home page of Utah Child Protection Registry please click on the following link https://DoNotContact.Utah.gov

 

ATTENTION: 

Announcing the arrival of a late Algebra II class.  Administration and Counselors have added an Algebra II class for this year only.  Student must have taken Algebra I and Geometry and are interested in the Algebra II class.  If interested, please see an administrator or counselor by Friday, September 9, 2011.

On Thursday, May 3, seventh, eighth, and ninth-grade students participated in Payson Junior High’s Third Annual Poetry Slam. The event has become an eagerly anticipated event which allows students at Payson Junior High (PJHS) to showcase their poetic prowess and talents. This year 83 students...

Payson Junior High seventh graders Brett Nielsen and Kaitlin Oberg were honored at the 18th Annual 2012 Great Kid Awards on April 25 at the Tahitian Noni building in Provo, Utah. The event was presented by the Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce and honored student achievements from around the...

Dakota Lange, a ninth-grade student at Payson Junior High, finished 14 out of 75 elite freshman and sophomore cross country runners in the Foot Locker West Regional Cross Country Championship. The event was held at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, California on December 3 and featured elite...

On December 6, Roah Kelly, a ninth-grade student from Payson Junior High, won the local junior high power lifting competition. The event was held at Mt. Nebo Junior High, and students from Diamond Fork Junior High, Mt. Nebo Junior High, Payson Junior High, and Spanish Fork Junior High...

Payson Junior High students, under the direction of the school’s counselors, committed and entire week in November to focusing on being buddies and not bullies in their school. The counselors, with help from the school’s Peer Leaders, visited the school’s classes to kickoff the anti-bully week,...