Schools · Salt Lake
Salt Lake, UT schools
Kids attend one of 23 schools through grade 8, then one of 7 high schools and one of 4 high schools.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
C+
Salt Lake’s School Grade: C+
The public schools Salt Lake’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 64% of Utah’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
C+Test scoresC-Graduation
Utah school districts we grade (153)Better than 36%
Lower resultsHigher results
Utah towns with similar household incomes (143)Better than 5%
High confidence. Built on 9,284 tested students and a graduating class of 1,869; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Utah’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Utah only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Utah with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
School path
Where Salt Lake kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Test scores · 2020–21
State test results
Math (grades PK–12, Salt Lake City)30%
State average 38.8%
Graduation · class of 2020
81% graduate on time
Graduation rate
81%
UT: 88.1%
Graduating class
1,869
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #99 of 119 UT towns →
Districts
The district serving Salt Lake
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Every school
All 60 schools in Salt Lake
Showing 1–30 of 60 schools
Wallace Stegner AcademyElementary · Grades K–8 · 683 students
C+CharterMountain View SchoolElementary · Grades PK–6 · 629 students
DPublicWhittier SchoolElementary · Grades PK–6 · 500 students
BPublicNibley Park SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 483 students
DPublicHighland Park SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 · 478 students
B+PublicLiberty SchoolElementary · Grades PK–6 · 473 students
D-PublicIndian Hills SchoolElementary · Grades PK–6 · 467 students
A+PublicUintah SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 · 464 students
A+PublicDilworth SchoolElementary · Grades PK–6 · 463 students
A-PublicEdison SchoolElementary · Grades PK–6 · 459 students
D-PublicMeadowlark SchoolElementary · Grades PK–6 · 434 students
D-PublicDual Immersion AcademyElementary · Grades PK–8 · 433 students
DCharterBonneville SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 · 414 students
A+PublicNewman SchoolElementary · Grades PK–6 · 405 students
DPublicWashington SchoolElementary · Grades PK–6 · 402 students
C-PublicBackman SchoolElementary · Grades PK–6 · 396 students
D-PublicEmerson SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 · 395 students
B+PublicGuadalupe SchoolElementary · Grades PK–6 · 390 students
D-CharterWasatch SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 · 387 students
A-PublicParkview SchoolElementary · Grades PK–6 · 371 students
B-PublicEnsign SchoolElementary · Grades PK–6 · 361 students
A+PublicRose Park SchoolElementary · Grades PK–6 · 358 students
D-PublicEscalante SchoolElementary · Grades PK–6 · 352 students
DPublicBeacon Heights SchoolElementary · Grades PK–6 · 345 students
A+PublicNorth Star SchoolElementary · Grades PK–6 · 336 students
D-PublicPacific Heritage AcademyElementary · Grades K–8 · 327 students
DCharterFranklin SchoolElementary · Grades PK–6 · 325 students
D-PublicOpen ClassroomElementary · Grades PK–8 · 307 students
CCharterThe McGillis SchoolElementary · Grades K–8 · 395 students
PrivateThe Madeleine Choir SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 394 students
PrivateSchool data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.