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American Fork High
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About American Fork High
American Fork High operates as a well-populated senior high in AMERICAN FORK, Utah, operated by Alpine District. Current enrollment sits at 2,316 students spanning grades 10 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 136% above the state mean of about 980.
Across the 89 schools in Alpine District (86,645 students total), American Fork High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, American Fork High shows that nearly all students (82%) are White. Other groups include 13% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, American Fork High has 92 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.1:1, putting American Fork High higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 14% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), American Fork High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 53.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 40.9%.
In the area at large, census data for Utah County shows the typical household earns roughly $100,671 per year, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Utah County's 202 public schools (combined enrollment of about 164,467 students), American Fork High is one campus in the mix.
Barratt School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around American Fork High. On composite proficiency, American Fork High comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 52.5%.
Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at American Fork High has remained close to its prior level, going from 2,275 students in 2018 to 2,316 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 8% to 13% over that span.
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