East Hollywood High

East Hollywood High is a small public high school in West Valley City, Utah, serving grades 9–12 and enrolling 318 students in a community with substantial economic need. Its statewide standing remains very low: it ranked 129th of 139 Utah high schools in 2025–26, at the 7th percentile, although that was an improvement from the bottom of the rankings in the prior two years.

The school’s most urgent challenge is attendance. In 2024–25, 78.3% of students were chronically absent—more than three times Utah’s 23.8% rate—and the rate has remained above 75% in four of the past five years. The same year, the graduation rate was 70.7%, compared with 89.8% statewide, while the dropout rate was 26.8%, compared with 8.5% statewide. Academic proficiency was below state levels in every reported Aspire Plus subject. Mathematics was especially concerning: 10th-grade proficiency was under 6.8%, and 9th-grade proficiency was under 31%. There are modest signs of progress in 10th-grade English language arts and science, but results remain low overall.

Comparisons with nearby schools provide useful context. Hunter High and Granger High had lower 10th-grade English and science proficiency than East Hollywood in 2025–26, yet their chronic absenteeism rates were much lower, at 34.5% and 40.3%. The contrast with nearby Vanguard Academy is sharper: Vanguard had 9.3% chronic absenteeism, ranked 30th statewide, and recorded 55.9% 10th-grade math proficiency. East Hollywood’s small size could support individualized mentoring, attendance follow-up, credit recovery, and graduation planning, but sustained improvement will likely depend first on re-engaging students and strengthening mathematics instruction.