Grace High School


Grace High School is the public high school in Grace, Idaho. Southeast of Pocatello, the community has a strong agricultural base and the high school reflects that base in its curriculum. The school, with 20 faculty and 134 students, is accredited by the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges.

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Grace High School received the U.S. News & World Report "Best High School in 2008" award. Inclusion for this exclusive award includes attaining high test scores, academic achievement performance and the overall scholastic experience. Just a select few schools in the nation were able to attain this award.

Extra-curricular Sports

The high school supports American football, basketball, volleyball, track & field, golf, and cross country. The high school's mascot is the Grizzlies; it was formerly the Red Devils until 1978. School colors are red, white, and gray. The school's football field/track is named Roswell Field, and the gymnasium is named Greenwood Gymnasium.
Utah native Dick Motta was the basketball coach at Grace for several years in the 1950s, and they were state champions in 1959. He was later the head coach at Weber State College in Ogden, Utah, and in the NBA for the Chicago Bulls, Washington Bullets, Dallas Mavericks, Sacramento Kings, and Denver Nuggets, and won an NBA championship with the Bullets in 1978.

Notable alumni

, played college basketball at Utah State University, and was an assistant under Motta at Weber State. He was the head coach there for three years, then rejoined Motta as an assistant in the NBA with the Chicago Bulls in 1971. Johnson was later an assistant for the Sacramento/Kansas City/Omaha Kings, and current assistant coach for the Utah Jazz. He is 3-time NBA Assistant Coach of the Year and also won Coach of the Year honors while with the Kings in 1975.
Richard Condie, a member of the class of 1977 and current athletic director, served as a special teams and running backs coach for the Snow College Badgers 1985 NJCAA National Championship team whose players and coaches inducted into the NJCAA Hall of Fame in 2010.