Best Schools in Holladay, Utah: A Parent's Guide

Almost every family I work with in Holladay asks about schools before they ask about anything else — before square footage, before the yard, sometimes before price. That is the right instinct. In Holladay it is also more complicated than people expect, because Holladay does not have one high school. It has three, and which one your children attend depends entirely on which street you buy on.

I have put this guide together so you can see the whole picture in one place: every public school that serves Holladay, what grades it covers, where it is, and — the part most lists leave out — which elementary school leads to which junior high and which high school. Then I have answered the questions parents actually ask me, including how to check a specific address and what is happening with boundaries right now.

I am Sam Holman, a Realtor with Real Brokerage. I am a Utah native, I grew up in Salt Lake, and I live in the Salt Lake valley. Everything below is verified against Granite School District or the schools themselves, and I have linked each school so you can check my work. If you are still weighing the city itself, my guide to living in Holladay, Utah covers prices, neighborhoods, commute and the outdoors.

How schools in Holladay, Utah are organized

Holladay is served by Granite School District, not by a district of its own. Granite is one of the largest districts in Utah and it stretches from the Wasatch foothills all the way west to Magna.

Granite runs on a three-tier structure:

• Elementary school — kindergarten through 5th grade
• Junior high school — 6th through 8th grade
• High school — 9th through 12th grade

That 6th-grade split catches people moving in from other states, where 6th grade is usually still elementary. In Holladay, your 6th grader goes to junior high.

The bigger surprise is the high schools. Holladay homes feed into three different high schools — Olympus, Skyline, and Cottonwood — and the boundaries cut through the middle of the city. Two houses four blocks apart can be on completely different tracks. This is the single most common thing buyers get wrong about Holladay, and it is why I never take a listing's school information at face value.

Elementary schools in Holladay, Utah

Five Granite elementary schools sit inside Holladay. All serve kindergarten through 5th grade.

School	Grades	Address
Cottonwood Elementary	K–5	5205 South Holladay Boulevard (2600 East), Holladay, UT 84117
Crestview Elementary	K–5	2100 East Lincoln Lane (4350 South), Holladay, UT 84124
Howard R. Driggs Elementary	K–5	4340 South 2700 East, Holladay, UT 84124
Morningside Elementary	K–5	4170 South 3000 East, Holladay, UT 84124
Oakwood Elementary	K–5	5815 South Highland Drive (1900 East), Holladay, UT 84121

Two of these carry programs worth knowing about before you choose a neighborhood. Morningside hosts a French dual language immersion program and Granite's Advanced Learning Center for gifted students in grades 1–5. Oakwood hosts Chinese dual language immersion. More on both further down.

Junior high schools in Holladay, Utah

Two junior highs are physically in Holladay, and both serve 6th through 8th grade.

School	Grades	Address
Bonneville Junior High	6–8	5330 South Gurene Drive (1650 East), Holladay, UT 84117
Olympus Junior High	6–8	2217 East Murray Holladay Road (4800 South), Holladay, UT 84117

High schools serving Holladay, Utah

Only Olympus High is inside Holladay's city limits, but all three of these take Holladay students, and all three serve 9th through 12th grade.

School	Grades	Address
Olympus High School	9–12	4055 South 2300 East, Holladay, UT 84124
Skyline High School	9–12	3251 East 3760 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84109
Cottonwood High School	9–12	5715 South 1300 East, Murray, UT 84121

Schools just outside Holladay that serve Holladay homes

Some Holladay addresses are zoned to schools with a Salt Lake City or Murray mailing address. They are still your neighborhood schools — the mailing address just does not match the city line.

School	Grades	Address
Oakridge Elementary	K–5	4325 South Jupiter Drive (3755 East), Salt Lake City, UT 84124
Woodstock Elementary	K–5	6015 South 1300 East, Murray, UT 84121
Churchill Junior High	6–8	3450 East Oakview Drive (4275 South), Salt Lake City, UT 84124
Wasatch Junior High	6–8	3750 South 3100 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84109

The Holladay feeder pattern: which school leads to which

This is the part I wish every Holladay listing spelled out. Granite calls it a feeder pattern — the chain from elementary to junior high to high school. Holladay runs on three of them.

The Olympus track

Cottonwood, Crestview and Howard R. Driggs elementaries send students to Olympus Junior High, and from there to Olympus High School. Olympus Junior High names those three by name as the schools its incoming 6th graders come from. This is the track most of central Holladay is on.

The Cottonwood track

Oakwood and Woodstock elementaries send students to Bonneville Junior High, and from there to Cottonwood High School. This covers the south end of Holladay, roughly below about 5600 South.

The Skyline track

Morningside and Oakridge elementaries feed Churchill Junior High and Wasatch Junior High, both of which go to Skyline High School. This is the north and northeast side, up toward Olympus Cove.

One honest caveat. Granite's own feeder chart marks Howard R. Driggs as a split feeder, meaning part of its boundary goes to Olympus Junior High and part goes to Churchill Junior High. If you are looking at a home in the Driggs area and the high school matters to you, do not assume — look the exact address up. I show you how in the next section.

Charter schools in and near Holladay, Utah

Utah charter schools are public, tuition-free, and open to students statewide. They do not have boundaries. You apply, and if there are more applicants than seats, admission is by lottery. Transportation is generally on the family.

Wasatch Waldorf Charter School — grades K–8, at 1458 East Murray-Holladay Road, Holladay, UT 84117. This is the only charter school with a Holladay address. It applies Waldorf teaching methods, with a strong emphasis on outdoor learning, gardening, music and handwork alongside academics.

Academy for Math, Engineering & Science (AMES) — grades 9–12, at 5715 South 1300 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84121. AMES sits on the Cottonwood High School campus on Holladay's southwest edge. It is an early-college STEM high school partnered with the University of Utah, and students earn university credit through concurrent enrollment while still in high school.

Canyon Rim Academy — grades K–6, at 3005 South 2900 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84109. Just north of Holladay in Millcreek, built around a core-knowledge and liberal arts curriculum with service learning, music, art and drama.

Dual language immersion and advanced learning

Granite runs 50/50 dual language immersion — half the school day taught in English, half in the target language — and it continues all the way from elementary through high school. Two of those pathways run straight through Holladay.

• Chinese: Oakwood Elementary → Bonneville Junior High → Cottonwood High School
• French: Morningside Elementary → Churchill Junior High → Skyline High School
• Spanish immersion continues at Olympus High School for students coming out of Granite's Spanish elementary and junior high programs.

You can see the full district list and the application process on Granite's dual language immersion page.

For advanced learners, Granite's gifted and talented program works in layers:

• Advanced Learning Center — a full-day, self-contained classroom for grades 1–5, aimed at roughly the top 5%, taught by gifted-endorsed teachers. Morningside Elementary in Holladay is one of the district's host sites; Woodstock in Murray is another.
• Advanced Learner cluster groups — for roughly the top 10%, grouped into a single classroom with a gifted-endorsed teacher at your own neighborhood elementary, so no transfer is needed.
• Gifted and Talented classes in grades 6–8 — accelerated English, math, science and social studies, entered by qualifying CogAT or SAGES-3 scores.
• Honors classes in grades 6–8 — same four subjects, self-selected, no testing required.

There are also two online options. Granite Online lets secondary students take up to three courses online alongside their regular schedule — useful for kids in travel sports, students trying to graduate early, or making up a credit. Granite Connection, at 501 East 3900 South in Salt Lake City, is the district's alternative high school; students are referred by the counselor at their boundary school.

A parent's guide to Holladay, Utah schools

How do school boundaries work in Holladay?

Granite draws a boundary around each school, and the address of the home you live in — not the address you work at, and not the school you would prefer — determines which schools your children are assigned to. Those boundaries are drawn to balance building capacity, so they follow enrollment numbers rather than neighborhood names.

That means a boundary can run down the middle of a street. It also means the name of a neighborhood tells you nothing reliable about which school it feeds. I have sat with buyers who assumed a home near Olympus High was in the Olympus boundary and found out it was Skyline.

One more piece of Holladay history that still trips people up: Spring Lane Elementary closed at the end of the 2022–23 school year, and its boundary folded into Oakwood Elementary. The building has since been demolished, and Holladay City is working on turning the site into Spring Lane Park. If you come across an older listing, an old blog post, or a neighbor who mentions the Spring Lane boundary, that boundary no longer exists.

How do I check which schools a specific Holladay address feeds into?

Use Granite's own tool. Go to the Granite School District school search, type in the street address, and it will show you the elementary, junior high and high school that address is currently zoned for. The district also publishes full boundary maps if you want to see the lines drawn out.

Two habits worth building. First, look up the exact address, not the neighborhood or the block. Second, do not rely on the school names printed on a listing, on a national real estate portal, or on a school-rating website — those are pulled from third-party data that goes stale, and they are wrong often enough in Holladay that I check every one myself before a client writes an offer. If schools are the reason you are buying a particular house, the district's own tool is the only answer that counts.

Are Holladay's school boundaries changing right now?

No — and there is a real story behind that answer.

In early 2025 Granite launched what it called the Area 5 Boundary and Closure Study, and Area 5 was essentially Holladay and its immediate neighbors: Cottonwood, Crestview, Driggs, Eastwood, Morningside, Oakridge, Oakwood, Penn, Rosecrest and Upland Terrace elementaries. In September 2025 the study committee recommended closing Eastwood Elementary and converting Morningside into a standalone French immersion school, with its boundary split between Rosecrest and Driggs.

On November 18, 2025, the Granite school board voted unanimously to place the study on an indefinite pause, meaning no closures, no program changes and no boundary adjustments for the foreseeable future. The public hearing that had been scheduled for that December was cancelled. Granite has since confirmed there are no boundary changes for the 2026–27 school year.

The honest caveat: the board said it wants a broader, district-wide review instead, and Granite has continued to publish enrollment and closure data. Nothing has been proposed. But if you are buying in Holladay specifically for a school, this is worth knowing about, and it is exactly the kind of thing I keep an eye on for clients.

What is open enrollment, and can I get my child into a school outside my boundary?

Yes, often — Utah has one of the more open school-choice laws in the country. Under Utah Code 53G-6-402, districts have to accept students from outside their boundary as long as the school has room.

Here is how it works in practice through Granite's open enrollment:

• The early window runs from mid-November to the first Friday in February, for the following school year. Applying in that window gives you the best odds. Applications are submitted online.
• Late applications are still accepted for the current or upcoming year, and the district has to respond within a set time — two weeks for a current-year request.
• Priority order matters. District residents come first, then military families, then students with a sibling already at the school, then feeder-school students. After that it is first-come, first-served, which is why the timestamp on your application is not a small detail.
• You provide the transportation. Granite states plainly that getting your student to and from a non-boundary school is the family's responsibility. Existing bus routes can sometimes be ridden on a space-available basis, but do not count on it.
• Students can transfer once per year, and once accepted, a student generally continues at that school without reapplying every year.

Charter schools are a separate process. They are not part of district open enrollment — you apply directly to the charter, and seats are awarded by lottery. Check each school's own site for its application window, because they differ.

Because the exact dates shift year to year, confirm them on Granite's open enrollment page before you plan around them.

Do schools affect home values in Holladay?

They do, and in Holladay the effect is unusually visible because of those three high school tracks.

Here is what I actually see. Boundaries shape the buyer pool more than they shape the price tag. A home in a boundary that families are seeking out tends to get more showings and more competition, and that shows up as a faster sale and a firmer price rather than as some fixed percentage premium. Two similar homes on opposite sides of a boundary line can perform differently for that reason alone.

What I will not do is quote you a number. Anyone who tells you a specific boundary adds a specific percentage to your home's value is guessing. The honest version is that the effect is real, it varies by year and by price point, and it is one factor among several — lot, condition, street, and how Holladay's inventory looks that month all matter too.

Two practical consequences. If you are buying, verify the boundary before you fall in love with the house, because a correction after you are emotionally committed is a miserable conversation. If you are selling, the boundary is an asset worth stating accurately in the marketing — and worth confirming, because listing the wrong school is a mistake that follows a listing around.

What I would ask when you are house shopping in Holladay

• What are the exact elementary, junior high and high school for this address, confirmed on Granite's school search rather than the listing?
• Is this address in a split-feeder area, like parts of the Howard R. Driggs boundary?
• If dual language immersion matters to us, is this home on the Chinese pathway through Oakwood and Bonneville, or the French pathway through Morningside and Churchill?
• How far is the walk or the drive, and what does the route look like in February?
• If we want a school outside our boundary, has the open enrollment window already closed for the year we need?
• What is the junior high transition — will our child change schools in 6th grade, and does that timing line up with our move?
• Has anything changed since the Area 5 study was paused?

About Sam Holman, your Holladay Realtor

I am a Realtor with Real Brokerage and I specialize in Holladay. I am a Utah native, I grew up in Salt Lake, and after serving in the U.S. Army I came back home to Utah, where I live in the Salt Lake valley today.

Matching the right school to the right home is one of the genuinely useful things an agent can do, and it is the part of this job I like most. For families moving to Holladay, that means verifying the exact boundary for every address you are serious about, telling you honestly when a home you love is not on the track you want, and helping you weigh what that is worth against everything else on your list. It also means telling you when a home in a boundary you like is simply priced wrong — that is not a favor I am doing you, it is the job.

If you are buying in Holladay, or selling a Holladay home and want the school story told accurately in the marketing, I would be glad to help. You can read more about my background and how I work on my About Me page, or reach out any time.