 The district covers 192 square miles and employs 6,000 people.The district officially started operating on July 1, 2009, with students attending Canyons schools for the first time that fall.Canyons District was created after residents in the communities of Alta, Cottonwood Heights, Draper, Midvale and Sandy voted in 2007 to leave the Jordan School District, which was the largest district in the state at the time.