Success DSU

Set in ST GEORGE, Utah, Success DSU is a minimally staffed four-year high school, one of the schools within Success Academy. It educates 310 students across grades 10 through 12. By comparison, Utah's public schools average about 980 students each, so Success DSU sits 68% leaner than that benchmark.

Success Academy runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 534 students. Success DSU is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Success DSU logs that White students make up the majority at 79%. Other groups include 14% Hispanic, 3% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 49.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.1:1, putting Success DSU higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 5% of students at Success DSU qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Washington County's rate of about 29%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Success DSU performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.1%, the actual is 53.4%, a residual of -3.7 points.

In the area at large, census data for Washington County shows median household earnings sit near $80,632, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Washington County's 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,356 students), Success DSU is one campus in the mix.

Legacy School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Success DSU. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Success DSU at 1st of 6; the average score across the group is 42.7%.

Success DSU operates from a high-density location. Success DSU operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Looking at the recent track record. Success DSU's enrollment has ticked up 31% since 2018, when it stood at 237 (now 310). The White share of enrollment edged down from 87% to 79% over that span.

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