Utah Public Schools

Utah is the #36 largest school system in the United States, serving 585,713 students across 1,026 public schools. There are 16 Blue Ribbon Schools, 24 magnet schools, 78 charter schools, and 87 special education schools. The student ethnicity breakdown in the state is show below:

Student by Ethnicity

(UT) School Average
% American Indian		 1%
% Asian		 2%
% Hispanic		 15%
% Black		 1%
% White		 78%
Unknown		 3%

Utah Public Schools by County

County
# High
# Middle
# Elementary
1. Beaver County 2 1 4
2. Box Elder County 8 6 21
3. Cache County 12 11 32
4. Carbon County 4 4 7
5. Daggett County 1 - 3
6. Davis County 27 23 70
7. Duchesne County 6 3 8
8. Emery County 2 2 6
9. Garfield County 3 1 5
10. Grand County 2 1 3
11. Iron County 5 3 13
12. Juab County 2 1 5
13. Kane County 3 1 4
14. Millard County 4 3 4
15. Morgan County 1 1 3
16. Piute County 1 - 4
17. Rich County 1 1 3
18. Salt Lake County 81 72 202
19. San Juan County 5 1 8
20. Sanpete County 3 3 8
21. Sevier County 4 3 6
22. Summit County 6 5 12
23. Tooele County 12 8 23
24. Uintah County 4 2 9
25. Utah County 40 31 115
26. Wasatch County 2 2 5
27. Washington County 18 13 34
28. Wayne County 1 1 2
29. Weber County 17 21 57

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    • Utah on its Way to Banning Sex-Ed in Schools
      Published March 17, 2012
      The new bill, which has already passed state lawmakers, would ban public schools from teaching about contraception or sexually transmitted diseases. If it is signed into law by the governor, it will be the most conservative law in the country regarding sex education in schools.
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      Published October 09, 2011
      Fuel Your School is a Utah and California program introduced by Chevron that provides additional funding for local public schools every time someone fills up his tank. Learn about which schools benefit from the program and how the funding is being used.
    • New Utah Bill Would Offers Funding Directly to Students, Rather than Schools
      Published February 25, 2012
      A new bill introduced in the Utah senate would take student funding provided to public schools and give it directly to students – to use for public school, charter school, online school or private school. We’ll examine both sides of this heated issue.

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