Utah · NCES F-33 finance data

Highest Spending Districts in Utah

The 50 Utah districts that spend the most per student, ranked from NCES F-33 finance data (2022-23). Only districts enrolling 500 or more students are included.

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

The spending picture in one line

Rich District spends $21,021 per student, the most of any Utah district listed, against an average of $11,951 across the top 50.

$21,021
top spend (Rich District): $9,288
lowest on this list: 2.3×
spread across the listed districts: 513
students in the top district

#	District	Enrollment	Schools	Per-Pupil $
1	Rich DistrictRandolph	513	5	$21,021
2	No. Ut. Acad. for Math Engineering & ScienceLayton	1,120	2	$18,421
3	Spectrum AcademyNorth Salt Lake	1,561	2	$18,354
4	Park City DistrictPark City	4,504	12	$17,523
5	San Juan DistrictBlanding	3,017	12	$17,104
6	Emery DistrictHuntington	2,230	10	$14,633
7	North Summit DistrictCoalville	1,053	4	$14,559
8	Grand DistrictMoab	1,473	4	$14,004
9	Salt Lake DistrictSalt Lake City	19,896	41	$13,808
10	Beaver DistrictBeaver	1,561	7	$13,347
11	South Summit DistrictKamas	1,717	6	$13,207
12	Kane DistrictKanab	1,519	10	$13,032
13	Ogden City DistrictOgden	10,521	24	$12,734
14	Carbon DistrictPrice	3,468	9	$12,592
15	Millard DistrictDelta	3,264	9	$12,567
16	Utah Military AcademyRiverdale	908	2	$12,369
17	Garfield DistrictPanguitch	1,312	10	$12,261
18	Utah Virtual AcademyMurray	1,772	1	$12,103
19	Logan City DistrictLogan	5,420	11	$11,853
20	South Sanpete DistrictManti	3,310	8	$11,794
21	North Sanpete DistrictMt. Pleasant	2,752	8	$11,768
22	Sevier DistrictRichfield	4,807	14	$11,591
23	Wasatch DistrictHeber City	9,082	9	$11,562
24	Provo DistrictProvo	14,007	23	$11,364
25	Murray DistrictMurray	5,871	12	$11,273
26	Canyons DistrictSandy	33,386	50	$11,268
27	Duchesne DistrictRoosevelt	5,435	15	$11,252
28	Uintah DistrictNaples	7,004	13	$11,207
29	Granite DistrictSalt Lake City	61,197	89	$11,000
30	Mountain Heights AcademyWest Jordan	928	1	$10,680
31	Juab DistrictNephi	2,731	6	$10,484
32	Weilenmann School of DiscoveryPark City	535	1	$10,413
33	Esperanza SchoolWest Valley City	529	1	$10,357
34	Box Elder DistrictBrigham City	12,649	23	$10,287
35	Cache DistrictLogan	20,227	26	$10,273
36	Summit Academy High SchoolBluffdale	511	1	$10,110
37	Valley AcademyHurricane	529	1	$10,002
38	Davis DistrictFarmington	73,459	96	$9,986
39	Utah Connections AcademySalt Lake City	1,020	1	$9,958
40	Ogden Preparatory AcademyOgden	1,022	1	$9,927
41	Weber DistrictOgden	32,888	50	$9,770
42	Ascent Academies of UtahSalt Lake City	2,635	5	$9,743
43	Freedom Preparatory AcademyProvo	2,074	3	$9,690
44	Leadership Learning AcademyLayton	865	2	$9,649
45	Vanguard AcademyWest Valley City	538	1	$9,641
46	Summit AcademyDraper	2,013	3	$9,486
47	Jordan DistrictWest Jordan	59,421	70	$9,450
48	Syracuse Arts AcademySyracuse	1,739	2	$9,438
49	Monticello AcademyWest Valley City	1,080	2	$9,325
50	Morgan DistrictMorgan	3,339	8	$9,288

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Methodology

Per-pupil expenditure data comes from the NCES F-33 Finance Survey. Only districts with 500 or more students are included to ensure meaningful comparisons. Spending figures include all current operational expenditures divided by total enrollment.

Per-pupil spending figures come from the National Center for Education Statistics F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2022-23, the federal government's annual census of revenues and expenditures across more than 13,000 public school districts. Only districts enrolling 500 or more students are ranked, to keep small-district outliers from distorting the comparison.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.