Timpview High School (THS) is a public secondary school located in Provo, Utah, United States. Timpview is a 5A school and is one of the three high schools in the Provo City School District. The current principal is Fidel Montero.
Academics
Advanced Placement classes offered at Timpview High School include AP Studio Art, AP Chemistry, AP Physics, AP Biology, AP Spanish Language, AP French Language, AP German Language, AP English Literature, AP English Language and Composition, AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, AP Statistics, AP US History, AP US Government and Politics, AP World History, AP Music, AP Psychology, and AP Human Geography.
Concurrent enrollment
As of 2015, Timpview High School offered 128 concurrent enrollment courses through Utah Valley University.
Athletics
Timpview’s athletic program offers participation in ten competitive sports: baseball, basketball, football, golf, swimming, soccer, tennis, track, cross country, and volleyball. In the 2008–09 school year, Timpview won the “All Sports Award” for the 4A classification in Utah. As of 2009, the Timpview boys’ tennis team has won seven consecutive 4A state tennis championships; its girls’ swimmingteam has won three consecutive 4A championships. In 2008–09, Timpview won state championships in football, boys’ track, and boys’ cross country.
PHASE Spectacular Program
In the 1990s, Timpview High School once sponsored a musical theater program called PHASE Spectacular founded by the school teacher Dana Thelon from the Provo School District which stands for Peers Helping Advance Self Esteem using various pop songs and even songs from The Newsies. This program was to help troubled students get through the problems of Elementary School, Middle School and High School, This program has shutdown in 2001 by the Provo School District due to budget cuts.
Filming in Timpview High School
Love, Fall & Order (2019)
During one scene in the Hallmark film Love, Fall and Order 2019. Timpview High School has been renamed to TAFT High School. Also Claire Hart and Patrick Harris are seen having a baking competition and walking in the school hallways and running on the Timpview High School track football field.
Notable alumni
- Mike Affleck, professional football player in the Arena Football League
- Bronson Kaufusi, professional football player in the National Football League (NFL)
- Mike Lee, United States Senator from Utah
- Stephen Paea, professional football player in the NFL
- Dallas Reynolds, professional football player in the NFL
- Matt Reynolds, professional football player in the NFL
- Danny Southwick, professional football player in the Arena Football League
- Branden Steineckert, musician with punk rock band Rancid
- Xavier Su’a-Filo, professional football player in the NFL
- Pita Taumoepenu, professional football player in the NFL
- Harvey Unga, professional football player in the NFL
- Lindsay Arnold, professional ballroom dancer and Dancing with the Stars pro dancer. Sisters Jensen Arnold, Brynley, and Rylee Arnold attended as well, though Rylee is still in the school.