Best High Schools in Midvale, UT

Midvale, Utah, has one public high school: Hillcrest High, serving grades 8–12 in the Canyons District. Located at 7350 S 900 E, the school enrolls 2,421 students and has a student-teacher ratio of 24.6 to 1. Because it is the only public high school in the city, families cannot compare it with another Midvale high school; the most useful comparisons are with the district and Utah overall. Hillcrest has a three-star current rating in the district listing and ranked in the 35th percentile statewide in 2025–2026.

Hillcrest’s strongest relative academic area is science. In 2025–2026, 10th-grade science proficiency was 39.7%, nearly identical to Utah’s 39.3% and just below the district’s 41.7%; science also improved in both grades from the prior year. Tenth-grade English proficiency, at 48.0%, was almost equal to the state’s 48.2%. However, mathematics needs significant attention: proficiency was 33.1% in 9th grade and only 22.7% in 10th grade, below both district and state results. Ninth-grade English was another concern, falling to 36.9%, compared with 49.9% in the district and 45.4% statewide. The school’s approximate average across the six reported subject-grade results was 37.4%, below the district’s 45.1% and Utah’s 41.9%.

For parents, the most important concerns are graduation and staying on track. Hillcrest’s 2024–2025 graduation rate was 79.2%, compared with 89.0% in the district and 89.8% statewide, while its dropout rate was 19.1%, more than twice the district and state rates. Chronic absenteeism was 21.1%—higher than the district’s 18.8% but lower than Utah’s 23.8%—so attendance is a concern but may not explain the entire completion gap. Families may want to ask about credit recovery, graduation planning, tutoring, ninth-grade transition supports, and math and literacy interventions. The school’s ranking also declined from the 64th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 35th percentile in 2025–2026, making sustained academic and student-support improvement especially important.