Blind South

Blind South operates as a micro-enrollment elementary campus in OREM, Utah, one of the schools within Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind. Current enrollment sits at 10 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 491 students per school, that is 98% smaller than typical.

Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 321 students. Blind South is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Blind South lists that White students make up the majority at 60%. The remainder breaks down as 30% multiracial, 10% Hispanic. By comparison, Utah County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 1.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 21.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 30% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Utah County's rate of about 22%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Utah County put the typical household earns roughly $100,671 per year, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Blind South is one of 202 public schools in Utah County (combined enrollment of about 164,467 students).

Elizabeth DeLong School of the Deaf is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Blind South.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 900%: 1 students in 2018 compared to 10 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 100% to 60% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.