Launch High

Launch High is a very small senior high in CEDAR CITY, Utah, part of Iron District. The school enrolls 196 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Utah's public schools average about 980 students each, so Launch High sits 80% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 18 schools in Iron District (14,125 students total), Launch High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Launch High reports that nearly all students (83%) are White. The remainder consists of 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Launch High lists 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.1:1. The state averages around 21.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 28% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Launch High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.3%, the actual is 59.9%, a residual of +13.6 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Iron County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,247 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Iron County's 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,285 students), Launch High is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Cedar Middle, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Launch High at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 51.2%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.