His small group started to grow in numbers and its members began to give Morley money.

The enrollment numbers quickly grew, and soon it was necessary to move the students and faculty into their first real school building.

Jordan High School offers a wide selection of AP and Honors classes, as well as the ‘Step 2 the U’ [4] program which allows students to take colleges classes at The University of Utah during high school.

The average ACT (test) score for Jordan students is 25, and the school's average SAT score is 1150 [5] The school has produced several National Merit Scholar award recipients, finalists and semifinalists as well as Utah State Sterling Scholar finalists.

This is due to the fact that large areas once surrounding the school were composed of sugar beet fields.