Advanced Placement courses are created by the College Board and offer college-level material and exams to high school students.

Students may receive course credit at colleges and universities across the country if they earn a high score on the exam.

As cadets proceed through the Program they acquire basic life skills, become more physically fit, and develop a sophisticated understanding of government, history, and management.

The Program is more than classrooms and textbooks; it is a hybrid, hands-on enterprise to create a better citizen under the close coaching, counseling, and mentoring of accomplished Army-veteran instructors.

All cadets are encouraged to participate in the extracurricular teams wherein unit cohesion, mutual support, camaraderie, and leadership grow.

Taylorsville has an established journalism program and has received national awards for the school newspaper, The Warrior Ledger.

The American Scholastic Press Association (ASPA) has awarded The Warrior Ledger with top honors, three years in a row.

[10] Since it opened in 1981, Taylorsville has won ten state championships in baseball, more than any other Utah high school in that time period.

John played in Major League Baseball for 11 years totaling 1090 games, most notably for the Kansas City Royals.