Summary:
Kane District has three high schools serving grades 7–12: Kanab High (grades 9–12), Valley High (grades 7–12), and Big Water High (grades 7–12), serving 509 students across the area. The district ranks 26th of 92 Utah districts and has a four-star rating. The schools differ considerably in size, staffing, and the amount of performance information available, so comparisons are most useful when the same grade and assessment are considered.
Kanab High has the strongest documented academic profile. Its statewide ranking improved from 35th in 2023–2024 to 12th in 2025–2026, with five stars in the two most recent years. It exceeded Utah averages in all six reported high-school tests, with especially strong 10th-grade English language arts and science results. Mathematics was its clearest improvement area, particularly 10th-grade math at 36.6%. Kanab’s chronic absenteeism rate was 22.2%, below both the district and state rates, although its 2022–2023 graduation rate was slightly below the district and its dropout rate was slightly higher.
Valley High offers the lowest student-teacher ratio, at 14 to 1, and the lowest reported chronic absenteeism rate, at 21.9%. Its reported assessment ranges suggest strong performance in 8th-grade science and generally positive 7th-grade results, although exact comparisons are limited because scores are shown as ranges. Big Water High is the smallest school, with 33 students, and has the highest reported ratio at 33 to 1. It also had the highest historical per-student spending, but no school-level test, attendance, graduation, or ranking data were provided, so its performance cannot be fairly assessed from this information.
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