School boundaries set for Vineyard area

VINEYARD — The Alpine School District Board of Education has approved junior high boundaries for an anticipated population surge in Vineyard.

Students will attend Orem Junior High if they live in the area north of Gammon Road, west of Holdaway Road and north of the soon-to-be constructed 400 South, an extension of Orem's 100 South.

That area is expected to be developed soon with more than 1,000 houses on property formerly part of Geneva Steel.

The remaining part of town, which includes all current residents, will attend Lakeridge Junior High, 951 S. 400 West, in Orem, said John Childs, Alpine District's administrator over junior high schools.

Boundaries have not been decided for elementary or high schools yet.

But the school district proceeded to create boundaries for the junior high schools because enrollment at 900-student Orem Junior High, 765 N. 600 West, is declining.

The new boundaries should help declining enrollment, Childs said.

Childs was unsure of the timeline of development in Vineyard.

"But they started infrastructure," he said, adding that sewer lines are being installed in the former Geneva property.