Fiddlers Canyon School

Fiddlers Canyon School operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in CEDAR CITY, Utah, overseen by Iron District. Current enrollment sits at 515 students spanning grades K through 5.

Fiddlers Canyon School is one of 18 schools operated by Iron District, a district that instructs 14,125 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Fiddlers Canyon School logs that 77% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 12% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 87% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Fiddlers Canyon School logs 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Iron County (around 30%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Fiddlers Canyon School sits in the top 10% of Utah schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 34.6%; actual is 57.6%, +22.9 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Iron County shows median household earnings sit near $66,247, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Fiddlers Canyon School is one of 21 public schools in Iron County (combined enrollment of about 15,285 students).

Nearest neighbor: Canyon View High, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fiddlers Canyon School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fiddlers Canyon School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 48.1%.

Fiddlers Canyon School operates from a town-center location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fiddlers Canyon School has shrank 8%, going from 561 students in 2018 to 515 in 2025.

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