An equity score of 41/100 ranks Ranches Academy #103 of 147 districts in Utah (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $8,035 per pupil, Ranches Academy ranks #135 of 156 Utah districts by per-pupil spending (Utah districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
367
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$8,035
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Ranches Academy operates 1 public schools serving 367 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Utah. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary 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 Utah County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $8,035 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 156 Utah districts by per-pupil spending. See how Utah compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 1.1% local, 91.1% state, and 7.8% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 41/100, ranked #103 of 147 in Utah against a state average of 50, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
and 44.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 78.6% White, 13.1% Hispanic or Latino, 0.3% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Ranches Academy, enrolling 360 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Ranches Academy accounts for 98.1% of all Ranches Academy student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Ranches Academy a distant remainder — means Ranches Academy-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: elementary. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Ranches Academy chronic absenteeism rate is 44.7% — 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.