San Juan High

San Juan High is a low-enrollment high school in BLANDING, Utah, overseen by San Juan District. The school enrolls 425 students in grades 6 through 12. That puts it 57% below the typical public school in Utah, which averages around 980 students.

San Juan District comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 2,873 students; San Juan High is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, San Juan High logs that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder is composed of 39% Native American, 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.1:1 average. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, San Juan County runs at roughly 73%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, San Juan High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.7%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (San Juan County) records that median household income runs about $64,481, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. San Juan High is one of 13 public schools in San Juan County (combined enrollment of about 3,032 students).

Albert R. Lyman Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, San Juan High comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 32.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 420 students in 2018 compared to 425 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the San Juan High community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.