This spring at Monticello High in the rural southeastern corner of Utah — a tiny school surrounded by redrock buttes and remote desert — every senior student enrolled there graduated.
It’s the first time that anyone can remember that happening. It’s a major accomplishment for any school in the state, let alone one with less than 300 students total, in one of the most impoverished counties and a five-hour drive from the capital.
“I’m thrilled, excited, ecstatic,” exclaimed Principal KC Olson, who said it was a little unexpected. “We’ve come close before. Now we’ve made it.