Davis School District
Davis School District is a school district serving Davis County, Utah, United States. Headquartered in the county seat of Farmington, it is the 61st largest school district in the United States and the 2nd largest school district in Utah with 72,987 students attending Davis schools as of 2019. It is located almost entirely within Davis County. Students attend elementary school from kindergarten to 6th grade, junior high from 7th grade-9th grade, and high school from 10th grade-12th grade. History. In 2006, the Davis School District received recognition for having the nation's top graduation rate among the  100 largest school districts in the United States, according to a survey by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. Also in 2006, the superintendent, Dr. W. Bryan Bowles was awarded superintendent of the year in Utah. For the 2016-17 school year, Reid Newey moved from the Weber School District to become the superintendent of DSD. In 2019 a Davis school bus driver closed the bus doors on the backpack of a boy, pinning him outside the bus and dragging him forward a couple hundred feet. His family sued the driver, alleging this was done intentionally to racially harass the  boy, who was biracial. They pointed to previous instances of racial harassment by the driver and attempts at retaliation for reporting him. The district settled the suit for $62,500 and acknowledge the "racial assault". A investigation by the United States Department of Justice followed. That investigation found that racial harassment was widespread in the school district and hundreds of complains were intentionally unaddressed. Communities. Davis School District serves the following communities: Schools. The following schools are part of Davis School District: