Salt Lake Center for Science Education

Salt Lake Center for Science Education operates as an one-room-style four-year high school in SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, overseen by Salt Lake Center for Science Education. Current enrollment sits at 368 students spanning grades 6 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 980 students per school, that is 62% below typical.

Operationally, Salt Lake Center for Science Education answers to Salt Lake Center for Science Education, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Salt Lake Center for Science Education logs that the largest single group is White at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 46% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Salt Lake County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.1:1 average. Roughly 44% of students at Salt Lake Center for Science Education qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Salt Lake County's rate of about 34%.

With demographic context factored in, Salt Lake Center for Science Education performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.4%, the actual is 41.7%, a residual of +3.3 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Salt Lake County indicate the typical household earns roughly $97,494 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Salt Lake County runs 325 public schools (combined enrollment of about 209,757 students), of which Salt Lake Center for Science Education is one.

Nearest neighbor: Newman School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Salt Lake Center for Science Education. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Salt Lake Center for Science Education at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 20.3%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site. Salt Lake Center for Science Education is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Salt Lake Center for Science Education has fell 10%, going from 409 students in 2018 to 368 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 35% to 46% over that span.

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