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Dixie High
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Dixie High
Dixie High operates as an average-sized four-year high school in ST GEORGE, Utah, part of Washington District. Current enrollment sits at 1,263 students spanning grades 10 through 12. By comparison, Utah's public schools average about 980 students each, so Dixie High sits 29% bigger than that benchmark.
Dixie High is one of 54 schools operated by Washington District, a district that caters to 37,102 students overall.
On demographics, Dixie High reports that White students make up the majority at 68%; the rest comes out to 24% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Pacific Islander. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 85%.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Dixie High has 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 21.1:1 average. Around 29% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Dixie High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 45.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 37.6%.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Washington County shows median household earnings sit near $80,632, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Washington County's 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,356 students), Dixie High is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Dixie Middle, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Dixie High. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Dixie High ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 46.4%.
The school occupies a downtown site.
Over the past 7-year window. Dixie High's enrollment has climbed 5% since 2018, when it stood at 1,199 (now 1,263). The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 18% to 24% over that span.
On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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