In 2020, the Box Elder School District Board of Education approved the combination of the boundaries for Foothill and Mountain View elementary schools in Brigham City into one, with a new elementary school to be built on the site of the old Bunderson Elementary that will house students from both existing schools.

Golden Spike Elementary was named in reference to the 17.6-karat golden spike used to complete of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869. The site where the Central Pacific Railroad from Sacramento and the Union Pacific Railroad from Omaha met is at Promontory Summit, located in Box Elder County. “We are unifying and combining two schools, and I think it might be a fun name for the area,” said board member Nancy Kennedy at the time.

Shaylyn Ekins was selected as Golden Spike Elementary's first principal and welcomed students in August of 2022.