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Salt Lake City, Utah - 1 schools
At $20,245 per pupil, City Academy ranks #4 of 155 Utah districts by per-pupil spending (Utah districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
City Academy operates 1 public schools serving 116 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Utah. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Salt Lake County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $20,245 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 16 of 155 Utah districts by per-pupil spending. See how Utah compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 13.8% local, 69.2% state, and 17.0% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
a 92:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 56.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 43.5% Hispanic or Latino, 40.2% White, 5.4% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is City Academy, enrolling 92 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
City Academy accounts for 79.3% of all City Academy student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of City Academy a distant remainder — means City Academy-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
City Academy student-counselor ratio is 92:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
City Academy chronic absenteeism rate is 56.5% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
City Academy has 1 school, including 1 combined. Total enrollment is 116 students.
How much does City Academy spend per student?
City Academy spends $20,245 per student.
What is the demographic composition of City Academy?
City Academy students are 43.5% Hispanic or Latino, 40.2% White, 5.4% Asian, 2.2% African American, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.