Success SUU

Success SUU is a rural-scale four-year high school in CEDAR CITY, Utah, overseen by Success Academy. The school educates 224 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Utah's public schools average about 980 students each, so Success SUU sits 77% leaner than that benchmark.

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

On the student-mix side, Success SUU logs that nearly all students (83%) are White. Other groups include 12% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 30.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 21.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 21% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Iron County runs at roughly 30%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Success SUU ranks in the top 10% of Utah public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 49.3%; Success SUU posts 76.8%, +27.4 points above that line.

Across the wider county, Iron County reports that median household earnings sit near $66,247, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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), Success SUU is one campus in the mix.

Cedar South School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Success SUU. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Success SUU at 1st of 6; the average score across the group is 47.8%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting. Success SUU 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 Success SUU has rose 6%, going from 212 students in 2018 to 224 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 89% to 83%.

On allk12, members of the Success SUU community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.