Utah Schools for Deaf & Blind operates 8 public schools serving 223 students, placing it among the smaller districts in Utah. The school portfolio breaks down into 8 combined schools, a compact enough portfolio that families can compare every campus directly before they move, rent, or enrol. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Weber County.
a 79:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 26.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 57.0% White, 31.6% Hispanic or Latino, 1.8% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Jean Massieu School for the Deaf, with a diversity index of 60.4/100.
Its largest campus is Jean Massieu School for the Deaf, enrolling 147 students (46% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Central Region Deaf, at 1 students, a 147x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Jean Massieu School for the Deaf accounts for 45.7% of all Utah Schools for Deaf & Blind student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Utah Schools for Deaf & Blind a distant remainder — means Utah Schools for Deaf & Blind-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates 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.
Utah Schools for Deaf & Blind school enrollment varies 147× across entities
Utah Schools for Deaf & Blind school enrollment ranges from 1 students (lowest) to 147 students (highest), a spread of 146 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Utah Schools for Deaf & Blind student-counselor ratio is 79:1 — 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.
Utah Schools for Deaf & Blind chronic absenteeism rate is 26.7% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
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 Variation between sub-units within Utah Schools for Deaf & Blind is typically wider than the Utah Schools for Deaf & Blind-aggregate figure suggests.
Comparisons are relative to Utah Schools for Deaf & Blind's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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