Summary:
Delta, Utah, has two elementary schools serving prekindergarten through fourth grade: Delta South School serves PK–1, while Delta North School serves grades 2–4. Both are part of the Millard District, which ranks 27th among Utah’s 92 districts. Together, the schools enroll 742 students and appear to provide a grade-level progression for children in the Delta area.
Delta South School has 315 students and the lower student-teacher ratio, 17.5:1, compared with 19.1:1 at Delta North School. The schools have similar free or reduced-price lunch rates, about 42%, suggesting broadly comparable economic circumstances. Attendance is an important difference: chronic absenteeism was 23.0% at Delta South and 18.9% at Delta North in 2024–2025. Both exceeded the district rate of 13.7%, but Delta North was below the statewide rate of 23.8%, while Delta South was nearly equal to it.
The available academic results are reported only for Delta North School, so the two schools cannot be directly compared on test performance. Delta North’s strongest results were fourth-grade science, with 61.6% proficient, and fourth-grade math, with 54.6% proficient; both exceeded Utah averages. English language arts was weaker, particularly third grade, where 35.4% were proficient compared with 46.6% statewide. Fourth-grade science improved by 2.7 percentage points year over year, while third-grade math improved by 4.7 points. Parents may view the district’s strong statewide standing as a positive, while noting that Delta North’s overall ranking has declined to the middle range and that Delta South has no supplied test-score or ranking history.
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