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Salt Lake City, Utah - 1 schools
An equity score of 61/100 ranks Salt Lake School for the Performing Arts #38 of 147 districts in Utah (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $11,102 per pupil, Salt Lake School for the Performing Arts ranks #29 of 155 Utah districts by per-pupil spending (Utah districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
203
Total Enrollment
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$11,102
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Salt Lake School for the Performing Arts operates 1 public schools serving 203 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Utah. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 high 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 $11,102 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 155 Utah districts by per-pupil spending. See how Utah compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 15.9% local, 80.4% state, and 3.8% 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 61/100, ranked #38 of 147 in Utah against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 1 schools offering Advanced Placement (16 AP courses district-wide), a 203:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 31.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Use the school table below to drill into any individual campus for its own demographic and resource profile.
Salt Lake School for the Performing Arts accounts for 100.0% of all Salt Lake School for the Performing Arts student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Salt Lake School for the Performing Arts a distant remainder — means Salt Lake School for the Performing Arts-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. 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.
Salt Lake School for the Performing Arts student-counselor ratio is 203:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Salt Lake School for the Performing Arts chronic absenteeism rate is 31.5% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Comparisons are relative to Salt Lake School for the Performing Arts's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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