Washington County School District staff demonstrated a new standardized template for high school websites and said counselors will use the pages to share course catalogs, graduation requirements, concurrent-enrollment dates and scholarship eligibility tools.

The district presented the template after the board flagged inconsistencies across school sites. Richard, a district staff member, said the template pulls together course listings, graduation and honors guidance, and tools that let students model how changes in test scores could affect scholarship eligibility. John Butler, a district staff member, will help distribute and train high-school counseling departments on the pages.

District staff said much of the material is already in place at most schools: a presenter estimated roughly 95% of course information is available for the semester and that schools will add site-specific details where course offerings differ. Staff pointed to examples on the template that link to individual schools (the presenter showed Dixie High as a sample), concurrent-enrollment deadlines for regional universities, CTE pathways and online-recovery-credit options.

Board members asked how long rollout would take. Richard said the district will work on the template this year with the goal of having all high schools “up and running” by the end of the school year. Staff said they will continue to update pages throughout the year and train counselors so parents and students can more easily find academic pathways, ACT score reporting, fee-waiver information and related scholarship tools.

The discussion was procedural and informational; no formal board action was recorded in the transcript excerpt about the websites. The board agreed staff should continue developing the template and offer counselor training to improve consistency between schools.

The presentation also noted related online resources, including district pathways for CTE and references to Utah online offerings and concurrent-enrollment partners such as local universities; staff said individual transfer rules and private-school listings (for example, BYU) will be treated as informational links rather than district endorsements.

Board members and staff said they will solicit feedback from principals and counseling offices as pages go live and will modify the template to address gaps raised by parents and counselors.