Duchesne High

Duchesne High is one of the small high schools in DUCHESNE, Utah, overseen by Duchesne District, with 408 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 58% below the state mean of about 980.

Within Duchesne District, which oversees 15 schools and 5,309 students, Duchesne High is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Duchesne High logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%). Beyond that, the school logs 13% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.1:1 average. Roughly 35% of students at Duchesne High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Duchesne High is in the bottom 10% of Utah public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 42.8%; Duchesne High posts 26.2%, -16.6 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Duchesne County shows the typical household earns roughly $78,445 per year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Duchesne High is one of 14 public schools in Duchesne County (combined enrollment of about 5,270 students).

The closest other public school is Duchesne School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Duchesne High ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 34.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Duchesne High has rose 18%, going from 346 students in 2018 to 408 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 88% to 83%.

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