Cottonwood High

Cottonwood High operates as an average-sized four-year high school in SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, overseen by Granite District. Current enrollment sits at 1,451 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 48% above the state mean of about 980.

Granite District runs 85 schools in total, collectively educating 59,404 students. Cottonwood High is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Cottonwood High logs that 41% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder is composed of 39% Hispanic, 6% Black, 6% Asian, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 70% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Cottonwood High has 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.1:1, putting Cottonwood High higher than the state norm the norm. Around 50% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Salt Lake County's rate of about 34%.

After controlling for student poverty, Cottonwood High falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 35.5%; this one comes in at 18.6%, -17.0 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Salt Lake County indicate median household earnings sit near $97,494, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Salt Lake County runs 325 public schools (combined enrollment of about 209,757 students), of which Cottonwood High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Academy for Math Engineering & Science, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cottonwood High. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cottonwood High ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 46.7%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cottonwood High has fell 17%, going from 1,742 students in 2018 to 1,451 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 29% to 39% over that span.

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