NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools UT

Best-Resourced Schools in Brigham City, UT

Compiled from official source data by PlainSchools. · Updated August 2026

7 public K-12 schools in Brigham City from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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Schools

5,874

Students

23.7/100

Avg Resource Index

20.8:1

Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Brigham City has more public-school enrollment than 62% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Brigham City's 7 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

3 of Brigham City's 7 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Brigham City lists only 7 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 161 to 1,641 students, a 10-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment: Top 38%
School count: Top 65%
Resource Index average: 3rd percentile
Teacher staffing: 12th percentile

Box Elder High accounts for 27.9% of all Brigham City public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Brigham City-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data Accessed 2026-08-26

Brigham City school enrollment varies 10× across entities

Brigham City school enrollment ranges from 161 students (lowest) to 1,641 students (highest), a spread of 1,480 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data Accessed 2026-08-26

Brigham City operates one school district — a single-district system

Brigham City's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data Accessed 2026-08-26

Brigham City student-teacher ratio is 20.8:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe Accessed 2026-08-26

#	School	Score	Enrollment	Level	District
1.	Sunrise High School	51	161	Combined	Box Elder District
2.	Discovery School	26	448	elementary	Box Elder District
3.	Box Elder High	22	1,641	high	Box Elder District
4.	Lake View School	21	573	elementary	Box Elder District
5.	Young Intermediate	20	1,003	middle	Box Elder District
6.	Box Elder Middle	18	1,124	Combined	Box Elder District
7.	Golden Spike Elementary	8	924	Combined	Box Elder District

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Brigham City

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

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Which Brigham City school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Sunrise High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Brigham City schools in this federal-data comparison at 51/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Brigham City, UT? ▼

Brigham City has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,874 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 20.8:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.