Altamont High

Altamont High is a very small senior high in ALTAMONT, Utah, one of the schools within Duchesne District. The school teaches 273 students in grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Utah's public schools average about 980 students each, so Altamont High sits 72% leaner than that benchmark.

Duchesne District runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 5,309 students. Altamont High is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Altamont High reports that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 9% Hispanic. Compared to Duchesne County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.9:1. The state averages around 21.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 22% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Duchesne County (around 36%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Altamont High sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 48.9%; actual is 32.2%, a gap of -16.6 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Duchesne County put median household earnings sit near $78,445, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Altamont High is one of 14 public schools in Duchesne County (combined enrollment of about 5,270 students).

Nearest neighbor: Altamont School, around 0.1 miles off. On composite proficiency, Altamont High comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 39.7%.

Altamont High operates from an outlying location.

Five-year trend. Altamont High's enrollment has ticked down 10% since 2018, when it stood at 302 (now 273). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 3% to 9%.

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