Best Cities in Utah for Schools

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Rank (of 131)	City	# Elementary Schools	# Middle Schools	# High Schools	# Alt. Schools	# Private Schools*	Rank score (2026)	Rank (2025)	Rank change from 2025
1^st	Midway	1	0	0	0	1	0.968	6	5
2^nd	Mountain Green	1	0	0	0	0	0.952	2
3^rd	Cedar Hills	2	0	0	0	0	0.915	14	11
4^th	Hyde Park	1	0	0	0	0	0.913	1	3
5^th	Highland	3	1	1	0	0	0.912	7	2
6^th	Providence	2	1	0	0	0	0.908	32	26
7^th	Mona	1	0	0	0	0	0.901	4	3
8^th	Lewiston	1	0	0	0	0	0.897	3	5
9^th	Nibley	3	0	0	0	0	0.896	12	3
10^th	Alpine	2	1	0	1	0	0.887	8	2
11^th	Richmond	1	1	0	0	0	0.886	11
12^th	Eden	1	1	0	0	1	0.856	9	3
13^th	Park City	6	1	3	0	4	0.854	13
14^th	Draper	7	1	3	0	7	0.824	19	5
15^th	Farmington	5	1	3	1	0	0.815	27	12
16^th	Kaysville	10	3	4	1	0	0.812	21	5
17^th	Mendon	1	0	0	0	0	0.81	5	12
18^th	Coalville	1	1	1	0	0	0.797	20	2
19^th	North Logan	3	0	1	0	0	0.791	10	9
20^th	Lindon	3	0	1	0	2	0.789	24	4
21^st	Fillmore	1	1	1	0	0	0.76	26	5
22^nd	Morgan	1	2	2	1	0	0.758	15	7
23^rd	Heber City	6	2	1	0	2	0.754	23
24^th	Ephraim	1	1	0	0	0	0.745	31	7
25^th	Smithfield	3	0	1	0	0	0.745	17	8
26^th	Mapleton	3	2	0	0	1	0.745	18	8
27^th	Wellsville	1	0	0	0	2	0.737	42	15
28^th	Washington	6	1	2	0	0	0.737	37	9
29^th	Millville	1	0	1	0	0	0.725	22	7
30^th	Plain City	1	0	1	0	0	0.71	25	5
31^st	Kanab	1	1	2	0	0	0.706	29	2
32^nd	Monroe	1	1	1	0	1	0.705	39	7
33^rd	Cottonwood Heights	1	0	0	0	0	0.703	16	17
34^th	Ferron	1	1	0	0	0	0.69	102	68
35^th	Hyrum	2	1	1	0	0	0.688	35
36^th	Centerville	4	1	0	0	0	0.687	33	3
37^th	Salem	3	2	1	3	0	0.686	44	7
38^th	Lehi	13	2	3	2	5	0.679	34	4
39^th	Sandy	19	5	7	1	6	0.651	38	1
40^th	Bluffdale	4	1	1	2	0	0.646	40
41^st	Saint George	3	3	4	3	0	0.643	30	11
42^nd	Pleasant View	1	1	1	0	0	0.636	58	16
43^rd	Manti	1	0	1	1	0	0.635	47	4
44^th	Delta	2	1	1	0	1	0.617	57	13
45^th	Riverton	6	2	2	1	5	0.614	51	6
46^th	South Jordan	11	3	4	2	4	0.602	36	10
47^th	Parowan	1	0	1	0	0	0.596	28	19
48^th	Bountiful	9	4	2	0	3	0.591	55	7
49^th	Vernal	6	2	2	1	1	0.585	63	14
50^th	Syracuse	5	2	1	2	1	0.585	64	14
51^st	Richfield	2	1	3	0	2	0.579	74	23
52^nd	Randolph	1	0	1	0	0	0.576		(n/a)
53^rd	St George	12	0	5	3	7	0.573	53
54^th	Saratoga Springs	9	1	1	2	0	0.571	50	4
55^th	Hurricane	4	1	0	2	1	0.569	67	12
56^th	West Point	4	2	0	0	0	0.565	43	13
57^th	Enterprise	1	0	1	0	0	0.561	59	2
58^th	Springville	7	2	2	1	2	0.561	77	19
59^th	Ivins	1	0	0	1	0	0.554	97	38
60^th	Orem	14	3	5	2	4	0.552	54	6
61^st	Beaver	1	0	1	0	0	0.55	98	37
62^nd	Cedar City	8	2	4	2	6	0.54	49	13
63^rd	Santa Clara	2	1	0	0	0	0.539	60	3
64^th	Nephi	2	1	1	0	0	0.535	90	26
65^th	West Haven	4	2	0	1	0	0.529	56	9
66^th	Helper	1	1	0	0	0	0.528	94	28
67^th	Salina	1	1	1	0	0	0.526	79	12
68^th	Fielding	1	0	0	0	0	0.526	46	22
69^th	Enoch	2	0	0	0	0	0.523	88	19
70^th	Salt Lake City	56	13	16	5	38	0.523	62	8
71^st	Huntington	1	1	0	0	0	0.52	106	35
72^nd	Clinton	4	0	0	0	0	0.519	61	11
73^rd	Erda	1	0	0	0	3	0.518	87	14
74^th	Gunnison	1	1	1	0	0	0.517	45	29
75^th	West Valley	1	0	0	0	0	0.512	91	16
76^th	Hildale	1	0	1	0	0	0.511	52	24
77^th	North Salt Lake	3	0	0	1	1	0.504	70	7
78^th	Brigham City	3	1	2	0	4	0.502	100	22
79^th	Price	2	1	1	2	0	0.5	71	8
80^th	Vineyard	4	0	0	0	0	0.498	92	12
81^st	South Weber	1	0	0	1	0	0.492	78	3
82^nd	Provo	15	2	4	4	7	0.482	80	2
83^rd	American Fork	8	1	3	2	1	0.482	66	17
84^th	Spanish Fork	9	2	2	2	5	0.476	76	8
85^th	West Bountiful	1	0	0	0	0	0.474	41	44
86^th	Garland	1	0	1	0	0	0.474	84	2
87^th	Woods Cross	2	0	1	1	1	0.469	68	19
88^th	Altamont	1	0	1	0	0	0.466	69	19
89^th	Tremonton	2	1	0	0	0	0.465	108	19
90^th	Kamas	1	1	1	0	0	0.463	85	5
91^st	Layton	14	4	4	2	6	0.454	93	2
92^nd	Monticello	1	0	1	0	1	0.451	73	19
93^rd	Stansbury Park	3	0	1	0	0	0.446	104	11
94^th	Eagle Mountain	10	3	2	1	0	0.444	75	19
95^th	Pleasant Grove	5	1	1	3	1	0.439	72	23
96^th	Bear River City	1	0	0	0	0	0.435	48	48
97^th	Farr West	1	1	0	0	0	0.411	89	8
98^th	Herriman	9	4	3	2	0	0.409	86	12
99^th	Hooper	2	0	0	0	0	0.408	65	34
100^th	Payson	5	2	1	0	0	0.395	95	5
101^st	Murray	7	2	2	1	3	0.391	81	20
102^nd	Blanding	1	1	1	0	0	0.38	105	3
103^rd	Logan	10	1	4	0	1	0.38	96	7
104^th	Moroni	1	1	0	0	0	0.374	82	22
105^th	Riverdale	1	0	1	0	0	0.353	101	4
106^th	Harrisville	0	1	0	0	0	0.35	115	9
107^th	Perry	2	0	0	0	0	0.335	103	4
108^th	Mt Pleasant	1	0	1	0	0	0.32	99	9
109^th	Castle Dale	1	0	1	0	0	0.317	83	26
110^th	Duchesne	1	0	1	0	1	0.314	118	8
111^th	Clearfield	5	1	2	0	1	0.309	110	1
112^th	Grantsville	3	1	1	0	0	0.302	113	1
113^th	Ogden	31	6	12	5	10	0.301	111	2
114^th	West Jordan	18	5	9	3	4	0.291	109	5
115^th	Holladay	1	0	0	0	0	0.283	121	6
116^th	Loa	1	0	0	0	0	0.279		(n/a)
117^th	Moab	4	1	1	0	1	0.274	124	7
118^th	La Verkin	1	0	0	0	2	0.266	125	7
119^th	Roosevelt	4	1	1	1	1	0.242	116	3
120^th	Taylorsville	4	2	1	1	6	0.24	112	8
121^st	Goshen	1	0	0	0	0	0.226	117	4
122^nd	Santaquin	4	0	0	0	0	0.224	107	15
123^rd	West Valley City	22	4	5	3	3	0.206	119	4
124^th	Tooele	9	3	3	2	1	0.192	120	4
125^th	Midvale	4	1	1	2	0	0.162	126	1
126^th	Roy	7	2	1	0	1	0.16	123	3
127^th	Sunset	3	1	0	0	0	0.147	122	5
128^th	Wellington	1	0	0	0	0	0.115	114	14
129^th	Kearns	6	2	1	1	1	0.11	127	2
130^th	Magna	5	2	1	1	1	0.056	128	2
131^st	Montezuma Creek	1	0	1	0	0	0.004	129	2

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* Private schools are not used in determining city rank.
Schooldigger calculates school rankings based on test scores released by the Utah State Board of Education.
These rankings were last updated on September 9, 2026, and are based on the most recent test scores available. We update rankings as we receive new test scores from the Utah State Board of Education, usually on a yearly basis.
Our sources of data include the National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education and the Utah State Board of Education.
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