Goldminer's Daughter

Located at 10160 E LITTLE COTTONWOOD CANYON RD, in ALTA, Utah, Goldminer's Daughter is a micro-enrollment K-5 school that works with 11 students (grades K through 8), one of the schools within Canyons District. By comparison, Utah's public schools average about 491 students each, so Goldminer's Daughter sits 98% smaller than that benchmark.

Canyons District runs 47 schools in total, collectively educating 32,688 students. Goldminer's Daughter is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Goldminer's Daughter logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (100%). That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

On the resource side, On paper, Goldminer's Daughter has 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.8:1, putting Goldminer's Daughter tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 27% of students at Goldminer's Daughter qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Across the wider county, census data for Salt Lake County shows median household income runs about $97,494, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Salt Lake County runs 325 public schools (combined enrollment of about 209,757 students), of which Goldminer's Daughter is one.

The closest other public school is Winter Sports School, roughly 8.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Goldminer's Daughter has climbed 57%, going from 7 students in 2018 to 11 in 2025.

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