Desert Canyons Elementary
Saint George, UT · Elementary School
Desert Canyons Elementary is a elementary school in Saint George, UT with 510 students enrolled and a 61% proficiency rate. Part of Washington District. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Desert Canyons Elementary is a elementary school located in Saint George, Utah. The school serves 510 students. The student-to-teacher ratio is 20.4:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 61% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
18% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Desert Canyons Elementary is part of the Washington District in Utah.
How This School Compares
Desert Canyons Elementary has 510 students enrolled, making it smaller than the average school in Washington District (709 students). Its 61% proficiency rate is 5 percentage points above the district average of 56%. Compared to the Utah state average of 56%, the school performs 5 points higher. The 20.4:1 student-teacher ratio is above the national average of 16:1.
Frequently Asked Questions
Desert Canyons Elementary has 510 students enrolled. The student-to-teacher ratio is 20.4:1.
According to EDFacts data, 61% of students at Desert Canyons Elementary meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Desert Canyons Elementary is part of the Washington District in Saint George, Utah. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.