Hunter High

Hunter High is a well-populated four-year high school in WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah, part of Granite District. The school teaches 2,480 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Utah's public schools average about 980 students each, so Hunter High sits 153% larger than that benchmark.

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

Looking at the student body, Hunter High lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 28% White, 5% Pacific Islander, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.

On the resource side, The school employs 101 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.5:1. The state averages around 21.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 53% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Salt Lake County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Hunter High sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 33.9%; actual is 16.6%, a gap of -17.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Salt Lake County shows median household earnings sit near $97,494, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Salt Lake County's 325 public schools (combined enrollment of about 209,757 students), Hunter High is one campus in the mix.

Hillside School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hunter High. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hunter High ranks 9th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 27.0%.

Hunter High operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Hunter High's enrollment has edged down 5% since 2018, when it stood at 2,607 (now 2,480). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 40% to 28%.

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