Pleasant Grove High School does a pretty good job of living up to its name. Although there are many things that could be improved, such as the excessive swearing and ghetto gyms, the overall experience is rather pleasant. I would definitely recommend this school over places like Timpanogos High School and Oak Canyon Junior High School.
Pleasant Grove High School has a long heritage of being a High School. It has existed in one for or another for over one hundred years. Although the students and mascots have changed over the years, a sense of tradition and longevity endures.
Although there are definitely cliques, they are not as present as they are at many other High Schools, and the atmosphere is definitely better because of it. A sense of unity and acceptance is formed; and although there are many different types of people, there isn't very much contention in the halls.
One minor pet peeve I have at this school is that its designers didn't do a very good job diffusing the flow of traffic in the halls. In one part of the school, the hall is incredibly crowded. This is in part because many people, for some unknown reason, decide to stop and chat in the most crowded part of the school. However, the blame cannot solely be placed on those inexplicable students. The designers clearly had a major oversight when building the building. It can be argued that this happened because of the multiple add-ons to the school. But an oversight is an oversight, and the people who built the new part of the school should have factored overcrowding into their designs.