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Youth Educational Support School → Mana Academy Charter School → Wallace Stegner Academy Kearns K-12 → Jordan Valley School → Granite Technical Institute → Kauri Sue Hamilton → Jordan Academy for Technology & Careers South → Jordan Academy for Technology and Careers - North →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Life Skills Academy compares for families
What families should know about Life Skills Academy.
- ▸ LocallyUT students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+8 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Youth Educational Support School, Mana Academy Charter School, Wallace Stegner Academy Kearns K-12 and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
High-poverty school
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥75% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. These schools qualify for the highest tier of federal Title I funding and typically receive extra wraparound services. Academic outcomes vary widely — check the state assessment + grad-rate tiles.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
🏛️ Your state's public flagship
University of Utah
The in-state tuition gap is the flagship's biggest draw — most in-state families pay far less than the out-of-state sticker. Average net price after aid runs about $16,200/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.
Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the strongest early indicator of dropout, transfer-out, and family disengagement. A school's absenteeism trend forecasts its enrollment trend 1-3 years out.
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of +8.1%/year, projecting from 2024's 63 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Most similar nearby high schools
The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Youth Educational Support School SALT LAKE CITY |
Public | 9.7 | 62 | -8.8% |
| Mana Academy Charter School WEST VALLEY CITY |
Public · charter | 12.7 | 60 | -1.6% |
| Wallace Stegner Academy Kearns K-12 WEST VALLEY CITY |
Public · charter | 11.3 | 79 | — |
| Jordan Valley School MIDVALE |
Public | 4.7 | 34 | — |
| Granite Technical Institute SALT LAKE CITY |
Public | 11.5 | 86 | -30.6% |
| Kauri Sue Hamilton RIVERTON |
Public | 5.0 | 123 | +2.5% |
| Jordan Academy for Technology & Careers South RIVERTON |
Public | 3.8 | — | — |
| Jordan Academy for Technology and Careers - North West Jordan |
Public | 5.4 | — | — |