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MIDVALE — The board of trustees for the Utah High School Athletics Administration finalized the classification realignments for the 2025-27 seasons Thursday.
After multiple meetings over the last few weeks to weigh various options as part of realignment, the board settled on a final plan after a Thursday morning meeting following input from the community.
The changes will take begin in fall 2025 and continue until the end of the 2026-27 school year before another realignment period begins.
Notably, the athletics board opted to keep 6A as three regions after a previous discussion to condense the highest classification to just two. American Fork, Lehi, Skyridge and Lone Peak remain in Region 3, and will welcome back Corner Canyon.
Previously, in the original proposed plan, Corner Canyon was slated to drop down to 5A due to the schools enrollment total, but ultimately made the move back to 6A.
Region 2 remains with the Salt Lake Valley schools, including Bingham, Copper Hills, Herriman, Mountain Ridge, Riverton and Westlake, with Cedar Valley making the jump to 6A from 5A.
Pleasant Grove made the move from 6A to 5A and will join Region 7 with southern Utah County schools — Maple Mountain, Payson, Spanish Fork, Springville, Timpview, Salem Hills (excluding football), Orem (football only), and Wasatch.
Maple Mountain was originally slated to make the 6A jump in the original renderings but will stay in 5A's Region 7.
Orem will only compete in 5A for football, and will participate in 4A Region 8 for everything else.
Logan dropped out of 4A into 3A Region 12 for all activities and 3A North for football, which consists of Morgan, Ogden, Union, Grantsville and Ben Lomond. Layton Christian Academy will join for all non-football activities.
2A and 1A remained the same from the previous meeting.
