Kayden Denny figured there probably hadn’t been a lot of past valedictorians at her school who looked like her.
But after she heard she’d earned the accolade, Denny and her adviser flipped through musty, yellowed yearbook pages from Highland High’s archives and realized that wasn’t quite the case: There actually had never been one like her before. Not at her school. And not in the history of Salt Lake City School District.
With her selection this year, Denny became the first Native American student to be at the top of her graduating class and to hold that academic title for Utah’s capital city district.
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