Public Schools in Utah
1,068 schools · 157 districts · 691,890 students
Largest Schools in Utah
School data sourced from NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) via the Common Core of Data.
Digital Education Center
Tooele
Granger High
West Valley City
Utah Online K8
St George
Cedar Valley High
Eagle Mountain
Copper Hills High
West Jordan
Taylorsville High
Taylorsville
Cyprus High
Magna
Westlake High
Saratoga Springs
West High
Salt Lake City
Hunter High
West Valley City
Frequently Asked Questions
Utah has 1,068 public schools across 157 districts, serving 691,890 students.
The largest school in Utah is Digital Education Center with 8,561 students. Utah has 1,068 public schools overall.
The average proficiency rate is 56%. Proficiency rates measure the percentage of students meeting state standards on standardized assessments, as reported by EDFacts.
All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data for enrollment and school characteristics, and EDFacts for proficiency rates and graduation rates.
School data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments. No synthetic scores are used.
this entity is one of the data points covered by this site’s U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment dataset. The detail above comes directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the context that follows situates the headline numbers against the broader distribution across U.S. public schools and districts.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
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.