Utah Arts Academy

As a minimally staffed four-year high school in SAINT GEORGE, Utah, Utah Arts Academy hosts 311 students from grades 8 through 12, overseen by Utah Arts Academy. By comparison, Utah's public schools average about 980 students each, so Utah Arts Academy sits 68% below that benchmark.

Utah Arts Academy is a school of Utah Arts Academy, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Utah Arts Academy shows that 77% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 14% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.1:1, putting Utah Arts Academy tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 26% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Utah Arts Academy tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 46.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 37.0%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Washington County shows median household earnings sit near $80,632, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Washington County runs 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,356 students), of which Utah Arts Academy is one.

Nearest neighbor: Sunset School, around 0.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Utah Arts Academy comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area. As a public charter, Utah Arts Academy runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 18%: 378 students in 2018 compared to 311 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 89% to 77% over that span.

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