Sunset School

Set in ST GEORGE, Utah, Sunset School is a mid-tier elementary-level community, run under Washington District. It serves 481 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Sunset School is one of 54 schools operated by Washington District, a district that caters to 37,102 students overall.

Demographically, Sunset School logs that the largest single group is White at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 34% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Pacific Islander, 2% Native American. By comparison, Washington County as a whole is about 85% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.8:1 average. About 60% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Washington County (around 29%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sunset School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.3%, the actual is 37.8%, a residual of +7.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Washington County) records that the typical household earns roughly $80,632 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Sunset School is one of 65 public schools in Washington County (combined enrollment of about 41,356 students).

The closest other public school is Paradise Canyon, roughly 0.9 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Sunset School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.7%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sunset School has edged down 8%, going from 525 students in 2018 to 481 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 71% to 54% over that span.

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