Park City Education Foundation

Art plays an important role in student success. It nurtures creativity, problem solving, and confidence and helps every child feel successful.

Unfortunately, art funding was removed from the Utah elementary curriculum decades ago. But thanks to funding from PCEF and a partnership with the Kimball Art Center, we’re able to bring art back to the classroom, allowing our 1500 students to learn from the masters—from Seuss to Seurat and Dali to Degas. Help us continue this important program.

PCEF provides funds to the Park City School District Afterschool program to ensure all working families in our community have access to quality support after the school bell rings.

The programs at all four elementary schools and middle and junior high schools provide a rich experience in a safe and supportive environment. This includes homework help, literacy and science activities, cultural opportunities and more.

Your contributions make Afterschool affordable for all Park City families.

The pandemic showed us just how essential it is to support educators and students beyond pure academics. That’s why we invest thousands of dollars in programs that promote mental wellness for our educators who’ve been on the frontlines, and for our students who’ve suffered more anxiety and stress than ever before.

Programs from Excellent Educators to Coffee Camper visits help our teachers alleviate stress and deal with challenges. Our long-term initiatives like Preschool, Afterschool, Bright Futures, and programs funded by Classroom Grants have been giving students the hard and soft skills they need to navigate our changing world for decades. And newer programs supporting mindfulness training to calming rooms are building the resilience and resourcefulness students need more than ever - in the classroom and beyond.

Help us foster more wellness. And more teacher and student success.

Science, technology, engineering, arts, and math. These STEAM disciplines teach students how to think both analytically and creatively. Pair them with real-world projects, and students learn in some of the most effective ways possible: through collaboration and trial and error.

From the elementary coding program to the coffee cart program to makerspaces, to Career and Technical Education (CTE), we nurture creativity and problem solving in every grade. Students can then put what they’ve learned to work in our capstone programs, which allows juniors and seniors to gain professional work experience while still in school: the Park City Center for Advanced Professional Studies (PCCAPS) or the PCHS Transition Program for neuro-diverse students.

Help us turn our students into tomorrow’s problem solvers and innovators.

Bright Futures changes lives by helping motivated first-generation students get to and through college.
The program walks alongside Park City's first-generation students as they prepare for, succeed in, and graduate college. We make a long-term commitment to our students, providing a college-readiness curriculum, individualized coaching, peer support and financial assistance from 10th grade through college graduation.

Nationally, only 11% of first-generation low-income students graduate with a bachelor's degree by age 24. To date, Bright Futures has a 90% retention rate. With your help, we are improving the odds in Park City.

The number one influence on student success is the classroom teacher.

Teachers have the ideas to help their students succeed. PCEF grants make those ideas a reality. Through Classroom Grants we witness firsthand the power of an educator who is given the additional resources they need to engage their students and help them learn.

From long-time programs like Robotics to brand-new programs like Aviation Pathways, educators have used PCEF Classroom Grants to create a more engaging learning environment since 1986.

Help us ensure our educators have the funding they need.

No one knows more about what our schools need than those who are in the classroom. So we created Innovation Lab to give educators a voice in PCEF decision-making.

Innovation Lab brings educators together to workshop concepts that will shape education in Park City today - and in the future.

By creating more opportunities to engage, listen, and build relationships, we can ultimately create greater impact in the classroom. We need your help to make their voices heard.