This database was last updated in October 2018, and its latest data is from the 2015-16 school year. Researchers can find more recent data at the U.S. Department of Education’s Civil Rights Data Collection site.
Miseducation
Utah
666K Students | 28.7K Teachers | 145 Districts | 1,009 Schools | 3 Districts Under Desegregation Order
Compare This State to Other States
Utah Composition
Black
Hispanic
White
Asian
Two+ Races
Native Am.
Opportunity
States offer a variety of curricula and enrichment programs. Explore what advanced courses and specialized staff members are available for students in this state.
AP Course Composition
Black
Hispanic
White
Asian
Two+ Races
Native Am.
Gifted & Talented Composition
Black
Hispanic
White
Asian
Two+ Races
Native Am.
This State
National
Students
24% Nonwhite Students
0
100%
36% Lowest 10% in the country
0
100%
85% High School Graduation Rate
0
100%
21% Students Taking an AP Course
36K students
0
100%
5% Students in a Gifted & Talented Program
31.5K students
0
100%
43% Highest 10% in the country
66.3K students
0
100%
12% Students Enrolled in Physics
20.2K students
0
100%
6% Lowest 10% in the country
10.5K students
0
100%
22% Students Enrolled in Geometry
43.4K students
0
100%
25% Lowest 10% in the country
50.7K students
0
100%
18% Students Enrolled in Chemistry
28.6K students
0
100%
3% Students Enrolled in Calculus
4,446 students
0
100%
2%Students Enrolled in 8th-Grade Algebra
12.4K students
0
100%
Teachers & Resources
23.2 Highest 10% in the country
23.2
15.7
16% Highest 10% in the country
0
100%
23% Chronically Absent Teachers
(Missed more than 10 days in a 180-day school year)
0
100%
13.4 Highest 10% in the country
13.4
10.3
2 Lowest 10% in the country
2
3.6
187 Schools With Credit Recovery Programs
133 Schools With Dual Enrollment Programs
291 Schools With Gifted & Talented Programs
9 Schools With International Baccalaureates
This State
National
Discipline
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Out-of-School Suspension Composition
Black
Hispanic
White
Asian
Two+ Races
Native Am.
Expulsion Composition
Black
Hispanic
White
Asian
Two+ Races
Native Am.
This State
National
Students
11.5K Lowest 10% in the country
2% of all students in this state
11.5K
2.7M
6,688 Total In-School Suspended Students
6,688
2.7M
483 Total Expelled Students
< 1% of all students in this state
483
120.7K
Outcomes & Resources
36 Average Days Missed to Out-of-School Suspension, per School
36
120.5
2.8 Average Number of Days of an Out-of-School Suspension
2.8
2.1
0.1 Lowest 10% in the country
137 Total Arrests
0.1
0.7
2.3 Lowest 10% in the country
2222 Total Referrals to Law Enforcement
2.3
2.5
0.3 Average Transfers to Alternative Schools, per School
0.3
0.8
0.4 Lowest 10% in the country
0.4
0
State
National
All School Districts
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Sources & Notes
Sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, Stanford University's Center for Education Policy Analysis, EDFacts, U.S. Department of Education’s Common Core of Data. Maps courtesy of Mapbox Community. Read our methodology →
Notes: The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights occasionally updates the underlying dataset. ProPublica may update the interactive’s data in response.
Disparity scores are not available if there are too few students in a specific racial group to make a statistically significant calculation. They are also not available if data about a particular racial group was not reported. Some schools or districts reported an overcount of students in a disparity category (such as suspensions or AP courses) when compared with the total enrollment of that particular student group. In such cases, we also omit the disparity score.
Due to rounding, demographic breakdowns in composition charts may add up to more than 100 percent.
The racial categories we show data for are: Black, Hispanic, White, Asian/Pacific Islander or Native Hawaiian, Two or More Races, and Native American or Alaska Native. In some cases, we abbreviate the last three of these racial groups to Asian, Two+ Races, and Native Am.
Due to a technical issue with the Office for Civil Rights’ collection of data on sworn law enforcement officers in schools, the data for security staff may be an undercount.
As with any self-reported data, there may be errors in the federal Civil Rights Data Collection. Though districts are required to ensure the accuracy of their data, some may still report incorrect figures. Additionally, for some variables, the CRDC rounds the number of students for privacy reasons. In these cases, groups of students may represent a slight undercount or overcount.
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Data specific to high school testing or high school level courses (including geometry, biology, calculus, AP enrollment, SAT testing rates, etc.) is calculated out of total high school enrollment, while data for other classes (such as eighth-grade algebra) is calculated out of total student enrollment. Read more about our data in our methodology →