What Utah School Districts Spend Per Student
The median Utah school district spends $9,016 per student per year, $5,527 below the national median of $14,543, across all 155 districts the state reports. The 41 of them a ZIP code can reach are listed below, and their 612,933 students account for $5.9 billion of current spending in fiscal year 2022.
Utah at a Glance
| Median district, per student | $9,016 |
|---|---|
| National median district | $14,543 |
| Districts listed | 41 of 155 |
| Students listed | 612,933 |
| Median district, math | ≈42% |
| Median district, reading | ≈45% |
Every Utah District, by Enrollment
Spending is current spending divided by fall membership for fiscal year 2022. Proficiency and graduation rates are school year 2018-19, the last year before the pandemic interrupted state testing, so the money and the results are not from the same year. A figure marked ≈ is one the federal file published as a range rather than a value, so small groups of children stay unidentifiable; it is the middle of that range and within ten points of the real one. A dash means the federal files publish no value under that district's ID. 114 further Utah districts are missing because the federal boundary file places them in no ZIP code, which is normal for charter and virtual districts with no attendance area.
| District | Students | Per student | Math | Reading | Graduation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine School District | 86,275 | $8,458 | 49% | 52% | — |
| Davis School District | 74,486 | $9,252 | 52% | 52% | — |
| Granite School District | 62,544 | $10,325 | 34% | 35% | — |
| Jordan School District | 59,363 | $8,709 | 45% | 47% | — |
| Washington School District | 37,400 | $8,179 | 45% | 48% | — |
| Nebo School District | 36,229 | $8,448 | 43% | 44% | — |
| Canyons School District | 33,702 | $10,509 | 54% | 56% | — |
| Weber School District | 33,101 | $9,134 | 40% | 40% | — |
| Tooele School District | 23,119 | $8,137 | 40% | 40% | — |
| Salt Lake City School District | 20,239 | $12,784 | 43% | 43% | — |
| Cache School District | 20,015 | $9,309 | 63% | 60% | — |
| Provo School District | 13,983 | $10,717 | 48% | 52% | — |
| Box Elder School District | 12,572 | $9,494 | 45% | 48% | — |
| Iron School District | 12,159 | $8,010 | 49% | 50% | — |
| Ogden School District | 10,689 | $11,358 | 27% | 36% | — |
| Wasatch School District | 8,999 | $10,533 | 47% | 52% | — |
| Uintah School District | 6,978 | $10,757 | 38% | 38% | — |
| Murray School District | 6,112 | $10,367 | 45% | 49% | — |
| Logan School District | 5,554 | $10,166 | 40% | 45% | — |
| Duchesne School District | 5,304 | $10,933 | 39% | 41% | — |
| Sevier School District | 4,828 | $10,108 | 50% | 46% | — |
| Park City School District | 4,743 | $15,520 | 51% | 55% | — |
| Carbon School District | 3,513 | $11,386 | 43% | 47% | — |
| Morgan School District | 3,382 | $8,395 | 52% | 53% | — |
| South Sanpete School District | 3,349 | $10,383 | 48% | 48% | — |
| Millard School District | 3,213 | $11,618 | 53% | 50% | — |
| San Juan School District | 3,026 | $15,637 | 32% | 32% | — |
| North Sanpete School District | 2,718 | $10,687 | 47% | 49% | — |
| Juab School District | 2,694 | $10,431 | 49% | 46% | — |
| Emery School District | 2,248 | $13,593 | 44% | 42% | — |
| South Summit School District | 1,703 | $12,171 | 49% | 53% | — |
| Beaver School District | 1,569 | $12,119 | 56% | 57% | — |
| Kane School District | 1,500 | $11,781 | 54% | 54% | — |
| Grand School District | 1,488 | $12,884 | 34% | 39% | — |
| Garfield School District | 1,323 | $10,963 | 44% | 42% | — |
| North Summit School District | 1,055 | $13,326 | 68% | 57% | — |
| Rich School District | 516 | $18,829 | 54% | 54% | — |
| Wayne School District | 473 | $14,182 | 44% | 43% | — |
| Piute School District | 311 | $20,129 | ≈42% | ≈37% | — |
| Tintic School District | 244 | $21,230 | ≈42% | ≈52% | — |
| Daggett School District | 214 | $22,234 | ≈47% | ≈57% | — |
Sources
Spending and enrollment come from the NCES School District Finance Survey (F-33) for fiscal year 2022. Proficiency and graduation rates come from EDFacts for school year 2018-19. Districts are matched to ZIP codes through the NCES EDGE geographic relationship file. Nothing on this page is estimated or modelled: a figure is read from a federal source file or it is left blank.
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