American Heritage School (American Fork, Utah)

American Heritage School is an accredited[1] private school serving grades K–12[2] located in American Fork, Utah. AHS serves approximately 1,000 students in grades K–12 on campus with approximately 5,000 students participating in distance education and homeschool courses offered by American Heritage Worldwide, the school's distance education program. The school is funded through tuition and private donations and accepts no public funding.

After Brigham Young High School closed its doors in 1968, several parents with children at that school and other area schools banded together to create American Heritage School, which opened its doors in 1970 with an enrollment of 85 students[3]. Though the school is oriented toward The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, it is not legally affiliated with Brigham Young University or The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

In 2002, the school moved from its Pleasant Grove, Utah location to a new 11-acre, $20 million K–8 campus across from the Mount Timpanogos Utah Temple in American Fork. The entire campus was funded through private donations. In 2009, the school completed a $5 million building expansion to provide for capacity to offer high school grades as well as to accommodate growth in elementary and middle school grades. American Heritage School then launched their accredited, worldwide Home and Distance Education program called Latter-day Learning in the Fall of 2010 (now known as American Heritage Worldwide), which serves families in all 50 states and approximately 70 countries around the world.

In the fall of 2018, American Heritage completed another campus expansion that added a basketball arena, classrooms, football/soccer stadium, track, baseball field, and tennis courts encompassed within 29 additional acres, bringing the campus to 40 acres. As is the school's practice, the 2018 expansion was completely funded with donations from private donors, with no funds coming from tuition or public sources.

In addition to its nearly 1,000 on-campus students, American Heritage also enrolls approximately 600 students in award-winning after-school orchestra (Lyceum Philharmonic) and choir programs (Heritage Youth Choirs) that are open to the community.

American Heritage School offers a full array of academic, fine arts, and athletics opportunities for its students. Activities include ballroom dance, choir, drama, orchestra, experiential learning, student government, robotics, chess club, basketball, volleyball, soccer, track and field, tennis and cross country.