Kanab School

Kanab School operates as a medium-sized elementary school in KANAB, Utah, one of the schools within Kane District. Current enrollment sits at 523 students spanning grades K through 6.

Kane District comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 1,484 students; Kanab School is among them.

Demographically, Kanab School reports that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 8% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Kane County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 42% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Kanab School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.4%, the actual is 52.3%, a residual of +12.8 points.

In the area at large, census data for Kane County shows the typical household earns roughly $77,092 per year, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Kanab School is one of 11 public schools in Kane County (combined enrollment of about 1,484 students).

Nearest neighbor: Kanab Middle, around 1.2 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Kanab School at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 52.3%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 5%: 497 students in 2018 compared to 523 in 2025.

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