Cedar Middle

Cedar Middle is one of the mid-sized 6-8 campuss in CEDAR CITY, Utah, operated by Iron District, with 1,139 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Utah's public schools average about 831 students each, so Cedar Middle sits 37% bigger than that benchmark.

Cedar Middle is one of 18 schools operated by Iron District, a district that caters to 14,125 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Cedar Middle shows that nearly all students (80%) are White. Beyond that, the school logs 14% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Cedar Middle has 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.7:1 average. An estimated 34% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Cedar Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.1%, the actual is 51.8%, a residual of +8.7 points.

Across the wider county, Iron County reports that median household income runs about $66,247, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Iron County's 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,285 students), Cedar Middle is one campus in the mix.

Launch High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cedar Middle ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 52.6%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 9%: 1,049 students in 2018 compared to 1,139 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 10% to 14% over that span.

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