Uintah High

Uintah High, a well-populated high school in VERNAL, Utah, part of Uintah District, caters to 1,843 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 88% bigger than the typical public school in Utah, which averages around 980 students.

Uintah District comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 6,687 students; Uintah High is among them.

On the student-mix side, Uintah High records that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 11% Hispanic, 5% Native American, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Uintah High lists 76 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.1:1, putting Uintah High higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 29% of students at Uintah High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Uintah High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.9%, the actual is 42.8%, a residual of -3.0 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Uintah County indicate the typical household earns roughly $73,746 per year, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Uintah County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,403 students), of which Uintah High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Uintah Online School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Uintah High comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.2%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 7%: 1,725 students in 2018 compared to 1,843 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.