Carbon High

Carbon High is a public school in Price, Utah, serving 1,004 students in grades 9–12 as part of Carbon District. Its 2025–2026 statewide ranking is 81st of 139 Utah high schools, around the 42nd percentile, with a two-star rating. That is an improvement from 96th place the previous year, although the school remains below its much stronger 2016–2018 results. The student-teacher ratio is 21.4:1, and 39.64% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024–2025.

The school’s biggest concerns involve staying on track to graduate. The 2024–2025 graduation rate was 81.9%, nearly identical to the district’s 81.7% but below Utah’s 89.8%. The dropout rate was 17.7%, more than twice the state rate of 8.5%. Chronic absenteeism has improved substantially, falling from 33.9% in 2020–2021 to 25.8% in 2024–2025, but it remains above Utah’s 23.8%. Academically, mathematics is the clearest weakness: 20.8% of 10th graders met proficiency standards, compared with 29.4% statewide. Ninth-grade mathematics was stronger at 38.0%. In contrast, 10th-grade ELA and science were slightly above state proficiency rates, while ninth-grade results were more mixed.

There are no other schools within 20 miles in the supplied comparison data, so families cannot use this information to compare Carbon High with specific nearby high schools. The most useful comparisons are with Utah and Carbon District. One encouraging finding is the school’s performance for students from lower-income households: this subgroup ranked in the 68th percentile statewide, considerably higher than the school’s overall 42nd-percentile position. Overall, the recent ranking and attendance improvements are positive, but reducing dropouts, raising graduation rates, and improving 10th-grade mathematics should remain the school’s central priorities.