Granite District
Utah's English Learners Are the Only Students Falling Further Behind on Attendance
In January 2025, attendance at the Salt Lake City School District dropped four percentage points in a single month. District spokesperson Yándary Chatwin told The Salt Lake Tribune that the timing coi...
Granite District's Two Utahs: Skyline High at 97% and Granger High at 73%, Seven Miles Apart
Granite District is a single school system. It has one superintendent, one school board, one budget, one set of policies. It spans the Salt Lake Valley from the affluent east bench to the working-clas...
Three of 41 Utah Districts Have Recovered
In the Uintah Basin, where oil field shift schedules pull families in and out of town on unpredictable cycles, more than half of Uintah District's students missed at least 10% of the school year in 20...
Utah's Charter Absence Rate Spikes to 27% While Traditional Districts Hold Steady
At Navigator Pointe Academy, a charter school in Draper, more than four out of every five students missed enough school last year to be classified as chronically absent. Its 82.8% chronic absenteeism ...
Jordan Quietly Became Utah's Third-Largest District
In 2019, Granite District enrolled 64,281 students, nearly 9,400 more than Jordan District. Seven years later, Jordan has passed Granite to become Utah's third-largest district. The crossover happened...
Salt Lake County's 18,000-Student Exodus
Granite District has closed 10 schools in seven years. It is planning to close more. The district shed 2,571 students in a single year, the steepest one-year loss of any Wasatch Front district in the ...
Utah Lost 3,062 English Learners in a Single Year
For 11 years, Utah's English learner population moved in one direction. From 34,394 students in 2014 to 61,481 in 2025, EL enrollment grew 78.8% while total enrollment grew 9.1%. The trajectory seemed...
Granite Became Majority-Minority. Nobody Announced It.
In 2019, white students held a bare majority in Granite District: 50.2% of enrollment, 15.7 percentage points ahead of Hispanic students. By fall 2025, that gap was 1.2 points. White students made up ...